Made of T-6061 aircraft aluminum, this is the only surfboard of its kind in the universe and was built by master metal fabricator Henry Weir, a renowned hot rod mechanic.

The board was the brainchild of James Mahoney who contacted Silver Surfer and Spider Man creator Stan Lee about giving permission for a Silver Surfer board to be installed in the Santa Barbara Surf Museum. Lee told Mahoney he would have to go through copyright holder Marvel Comics and after a year of negotiations Marvel finally gave the go-ahead on the precondition that only one such board could ever be made and that it must follow the design parameters laid out in the comic book. The board’s features, including the distinctive five lines on the deck, were subsequently approved. Once the board was built, Stan Lee blessed it with a signed letter stating: “I, the co-creator, deem Norrin Radd, also known as the Silver Surfer, the only one to use this board in his quests both on earth and throughout the universe.”

It’s clear that the board is suitable only for a superhero surfing intergalactic waves of cosmic energy, since the whopping 97-pound metal behemoth would sink like a brick in the waters of surfing’s birthplace in Waikiki, or anywhere else for that matter.