Grip Tape Mysteries...Revealed!!!

So my wife gets me a Vision "Old Ghosts" Guardian (circa 1986) for my birthday. She knew I wanted something old school to ride around after I've had a few beers or just to freak out the young'uns in the neighborhood...and she did good. This lady knows what I like.

I dig the board, but on closer inspection I realize something just isn't right with the top of the board. The grip tape job is fine, but it looks a little standard and I get the feeling I'm missing out on something...something important.
I grab a hair dryer and get to work. As the grip tape gets hotter, it gets looser, and looser, and looser...

...until Pa-DOW! I can finally see what the grip tape was hiding...and it's pretty damn cool.

So here's the top after I re-cut the grip tape. Sure it's gonna be dirty and beat all to hell eventually but for now it looks cool as hell. And for a reissue of a twenty-three year old deck that's pretty much all that counts.