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I purchased these new. I think the year was 1984 or so.
 

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Uncle-A

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I purchased these new. I think the year was 1984 or so.
Did they make that ski in two models? Because in the mid 80's they made the RC 4 in a Vacuum model and I don’t see Vacuum printed on your ski.
 

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I have the Vacuum’s in 195cm also.*
They look very similar.
The year that the Vacuum RC4 was released I purchased these Competitions at a discount because they were the previous model year Fischer’s. It wasn’t until 25+ years after that I picked up my matching pair of Vacuum’s and learned I had chosen the wrong ones back in 84!
With the factory bevels the RC4 Vacuum’s are a totally different ski. Very Fast!

* My Fischer Competitions are 200cm
 

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This 1984 Equipment served me just fine..
Two days of skiing in 2014!
 

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Uncle-A

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This 1984 Equipment served me just fine..
Two days of skiing in 2014!
The photo of the Vacuum ski is a second edition of the Vacuum process and is a cap style ski, the first edition of the vacuum was a sandwich style construction. The RC4 that I had was a GS sandwich construction or first edition vacuum model. It didn't come with a 1 - 3 tune but since I tuned it before using I found the ski was exceptional and yes very fast. It probably was the first true GS ski I owned. Unfortunately I don't have any photos of the ski and don't remember why I got rid of the ski. Probably I needed to make space for something newer in my collection.
 

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Yeah mine have the Trapezoid sides and bevels. Skiing on them for the fist time was quite an eye opener! Loosy Goosey - pure P-Tex on the flats going straight. Edge them and they turn fine!

The Solomon XS Equipe boots and Marker bindings in the photo also held up fine; you can’t say that about all 30 year old pieces of ski equipment!
 

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They are 195cm and the bindings say Head and System Gertsch.
Are you going to ski them? The Plate bindings of that day were reasonably safe.
 

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