You should know how it works by now. Usually I’m looking for something else and my curiosity gets peaked by some unrelated skateboard ephemera that shows up in the search. This time it is the Tasmanian Devil by Nash. I was hesitant to believe this was a Nash deck because although the plastics say Nash, I’m not familiar with the “Gold Line” shown on the tail. Red Line? Sure. Gold Line? Never heard of it. Still, it does say Nash on the tail. The top only says “Tasmanian Devil.” These graphics are poor, even by Nash standards. That’s a real Tasmanian Devil in the second slot, courtesy of Australia Zoo.

The Biemme Red Star is a board of Italian manufacture. There’s a company called Biemme that started in 1978, but they seem to be focused on bicycles. Maybe they had a brief foray into skateboard like a few of the other bicycle-centric companies of the era did. A search fro “Red star skateboard” turns up a bunch of unrelated boards. Currently, including “Biemme” in that search returns exactly 2 instances of this skateboard, both auctions cling this is an 80’s era board. It’s got trucks that fit into the bottom of the board instead of having a separate baseplate. That’s not a big deal, we’ve seen that in American boards and Italian boards. The thing that makes this board interesting is the bizarre molded double kicktail, on. appointed nose no, less.