Back with his family for the summer of 1970, he visited a plastics factory in Purcellville called Creative Urethanes, owned by a friend’s father.
Up to this point, skateboards had also been manufactured with either the same steel wheels as rollerskates, or out of a clay composite – a combination of plastic, paper, and finely ground walnut shells.
[1] Nasworthy's association with Bahne led him to commission a series of paintings by poster artist Jim Evans that featured Cadillac Wheels.
As a professional freestyle competitor at the time noted: Nasworthy completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mechanics at University of California San Diego in 1984.
Most of his career was spent at Hewlett Packard where he helped to develop the first wide format Thermal Inkjet Printer and filed patents regarding paper handling.