Show off your clear shell helmets

[lions93]

Re: Show off your clear shell helmets

2nd DW

Paint has released along the top. Front to rear.

Still nice.

Looking for Detroit Lions jersey gamer # 93 Smith or Vanden Bosch

bosch@boschsmith.com

[lions93]

Re: Show off your clear shell helmets

I'll post more clear shells - need to find my camera. I have the shipping box for the Detroit Wheels helmet.

Has a March 1974 Date.

bosch@boschsmith.com

[lions93]

Re: Show off your clear shell helmets

I think the helmet is now in the 350 - 400 range (Detroit Wheels).

Any ideas on this helmet?

http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/1/4/4...04522347_o.jpg

http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/1/4/4...04522342_o.jpg

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[Gridiron Heroes]

Re: Show off your clear shell helmets

That Wheels prototype is nice. I communicated w/ the seller about it for awhile, but his price was too high for me.

As far as the "Rick Leach" helmet, there's no way it was ever worn by him. Michigan didn't wear yellow mask, the helmet is dated 1970, and Leach wore a different mask then the one included w / the helmet. IMO, the seller was trying to get a few extra bucks out of the helmet and listed it as such.

Shawn Kennedy
gridironheroes22@yahoo.com
GridironHeroes.net

[lions93]

Re: Show off your clear shell helmets

Detroit Wheels salesman sample.

bosch@boschsmith.com

[halzeus]

Re: Show off your clear shell helmets

That's a beauty! We have a 1970 Riddell TK listed on ebay right now. LMK if you're interested.

Always buying former Gophers game used jerseys/helmets!

Shawn Kennedy
gridironheroes22@yahoo.com
GridironHeroes.net

Thanks.

I bid on that TK when in was previously listed as Rick Leach's practice helmet.

[lions93]

Re: Show off your clear shell helmets

Nice lids!

Go Michigan -

Always looking for Jerry Ball gamers.

bosch@boschsmith.com

[Gridiron Heroes]

Re: Show off your clear shell helmets

That's a beauty! We have a 1970 Riddell TK listed on ebay right now. LMK if you're interested.

Always buying former Gophers game used jerseys/helmets!

Shawn Kennedy
gridironheroes22@yahoo.com
GridironHeroes.net

[halzeus]

Re: Show off your clear shell helmets

My first Michigan clear shell (and hopefully not my last):

[John in KY]

Re: Show off your clear shell helmets

I know absolutely nothing about football helmets, so I'm guessing this would be considered a clear-shell helmet:



This isn't my helmet; I took this photo at the Pro Football HOF in Canton last weekend.

Yes - I suspect it was a MacGregor sales sample or something made up for a trade show so equipment managers could see both how clear the shell is (compared to how the old Riddell RT's yellowed) and so they could also see the padding.

[Birdbats]

Re: Show off your clear shell helmets

I know absolutely nothing about football helmets, so I'm guessing this would be considered a clear-shell helmet:



This isn't my helmet; I took this photo at the Pro Football HOF in Canton last weekend.

[cohibasmoker]

Re: Show off your clear shell helmets

Here's a Ole Miss MacGregor helmet from 1970. An all-original helmet with original hook-ups.

Jim

flaa1a@comcast.net

[BrianK]

Re: Show off your clear shell helmets

Riddell RT

This thread just keeps getting better.

[helmets]

Re: Show off your clear shell helmets

Riddell RT

[John in KY]

Re: Show off your clear shell helmets

Thanks for sharing - the clear shells were an interesting piece of football helmet history.

I believe I read somewhere - maybe over on Helmethut - that Kelley was the distributor for MacGregor helmets in the southwest - pretty much had the accounts of all the old Southwest Conference teams (i.e. the state of Texas), plus covered Oklahoma and some other surrounding states. When MacGregor decided to get out of the business he bought the molds, designs, etc. from them and kept them in production.

Didn't Kelley and MaxPro eventually merge sometime in the 1980s?