StupidDope on Gasoline Surfers
Surfers have been strapping boards to roof racks and running the coast highway for as long as there have been waves worth chasing. The car was how you got there. Somewhere along the way the two scenes grew up side by side. Both are about building, fixing and tuning the thing you love, and both are hard to explain to anyone outside them.
That overlap is what StupidDope's Jesse James dug into in his piece on Gasoline Surfers. He traced it back to Cory, who windsurfed before cars took over, and to time spent in California, where car people and surf people share the same streets and the same shops.
He spent time on the artwork, too. Alex Ramon Mas drew every graphic from automotive history, the kind of hand-done illustration you used to find on shop signs and in old zines. His take: "The [Gasoline Surfers artwork] felt timeless rather than temporary."
The line is small on purpose: a heavyweight fleece hoodie, a combed cotton tee and a hat. Alongside them are 48 skateboards made with Oasis Skateboard Factory, a Toronto alternative high school where students earn credits by designing and building boards. Every deck sold funds the program.