1966 BING David Nuuhiwa Noseriding – Vintage Surfboard: Auction Starts April 05th
Starting Bid: $800
Est: $3,500 – $5,000
Timed Surf Collectibles Auction (Starts on April 05, 2025)
Size: 9′ 6″
Category: 60s ERA MODELS, BING, ORIGINAL
Description:
You are bidding on an all original 1966 BING David Nuuhiwa Noseriding Model. When it comes to pitching a tent, starting a fire, opening a can of beans and camping out on the nose – THIS IS IT! Nothing can beat this board design. Nothing. Yeah, modern day foam choppers try to copy it. Except…the foam in the ’60s was different, the glass jobs in the ’60s were different. Todays maestros can’t do it. They come close. But they fall short. You are bidding on the cream of the crop. An all original 1966 BING David Nuuhiwa Noserider. Red deck with black nose accent and classic red BING DNN logo. A glassed in matching red fin with high density foam tail block. Number 5098 and a patina that suggest this board was ridden and appreciated – and that was probably just last month! Highly sought after, and for good reason.
Condition: 8.5 out of 10
Provenance: Board has been in the possession of a San Diego surfer for decades — he is moving out of country. Can’t take it with him. FYI – we brought this board by the BING factory for discerning eyeballs and Matt Calvani confirmed this board is all original.
Literature:
At 18-years-old David Nuuhiwa was universally regarded as one of the world’s best surfers. He rode in a pliable open-knee stance, deftly blended one turn to the next, and cross-stepped with cool self-possession across the deck of his board. Expert in all facets of the sport—save big-wave riding—Nuuhiwa was a preternaturally gifted noserider, able to suspend himself on the tip for seconds at a time. When Surfer magazine asked Phil Edwards to pick the world’s 10 best noseriders in 1965, he placed Nuuhiwa on top. “He was a pharaoh,” fellow Hawaiian-born surfer Reno Abellira later said. “David was surfing itself, noseriding to the adoring masses.” A first-generation surfing professional, Nuuhiwa signed endorsement deals in 1967 that were said to be worth $25,000. American surfers expected the slender goofyfoot to cruise to a world title in 1966—he won the Surfer Magazine Readers Poll Award that year, and the David Nuuhiwa Noseriding Model signature model by Bing Surfboards was the season’s hottest-selling board. Surfing came easy to Nuuhiwa. He was almost extra-human in the water, a hybrid, with panther-soft feet and maybe vestigial gills if you got close enough to see, and by age 17 his wave-riding style verged on the immaculate: arms resting low off the hips while trimming, face calm, shoulders, hands, legs, hips, and ankles all moving together as if they were coated in graphite. Where Phil Edwards made an art out of overreach and recovery, Nuuhiwa put his turns together like Rudolf Nureyev on a long pass across the floor at Lincoln Center. The two surfers were physically distinct as well: the slender and smooth-limbed Nuuhiwa, despite being just over six feet tall, looked almost waifish next to the hairy-shouldered Edwards. — courtesy Encyclopedia of Surfing EOS.SURF
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