1986 US Racquet & Shoes Advert

[Grafil Injection]

In reading this leaflet again, I do wonder why there's so few different Prince models in their store? 1986 was a major revamp year for them and they introduced a lot of new models and revisions, and very few of them are for sale here.

HBird is a discounter so their stock is 6-12 months behind the latest releases, so this would show mainly 1985 and earlier models, which was fairly quiet for Prince I guess.

 

[vsbabolat]

HBird is a discounter so their stock is 6-12 months behind the latest releases, so this would show mainly 1985 and earlier models, which was fairly quiet for Prince I guess.

They had them in stock was just how they advertised. Lombard was bigger at that time.

 

[mctennis]

I have bought so many products from H'bird Sports over the years. I enjoyed looking at their ads in the back of TENNIS magazine each month. I bought my first non wooden racquet from them back in 82'. It arrived the very morning I was going on my vacation to Hilton Head. I was so happy to have it arrive before I left. It was really expensive , to me, at the time. I used that racquet as my main racquet for about 12 years.

 

[mctennis]

HBird is a discounter so their stock is 6-12 months behind the latest releases, so this would show mainly 1985 and earlier models, which was fairly quiet for Prince I guess.

I liked the fact they were behind in their stock selection. It allowed me to buy some nice tennis products at good prices. Once you tried out a racquet or some tennis shoes and wanted to buy more the main stores were out of them. So you could get them at their site. Really handy.