Lets see, where do I start?
I've got a 67 Schwinn Fastback, light blue, that's getting a total resto from a basket case.
I've got a '69 Fastback that's been in bare-metal for half a year, just a frame, gonna be an orange 5-speed when it's all done. I've got a black 66 and a green '71, plus this blue '67, and my friend has a black '66 (that I built), a blue '70 and a yellow '71... so orange will be a good contrast. All my Fastbacks might end up getting sold, too, since I've been kind of moving away from them and more towards Deluxe Stingrays.
Speaking of which, my 66 copper deluxe needs a new rear tire installed, have it but haven't gotten around to that yet. My 65 coppertone Collegiate needs a complete going-over and probably one new tire at least.
My red 72 Stingray is getting new decals, the old silkscreens are all but gone. It's my first Stingray, so it's a keeper.
The green 68 Stingray needs to come apart and have some fender issues fixed, and the scrapey-tick-tick noises in the hub looked at.
The Columbia Playbike is going up for sale, with or without the new chainguard I got for it. A parts bike (Columbia Scamp convertible, that I stole the tank from) will go with it for another $10. Nobody wants Columbias it seems.
This 77 Fairlady Ive got needs a thorough cleaning, need to spend a good long day on that one to make it beautiful again. A very nice complete bike now, built from two I got for $10 each at a swap meet, plus a seat I already had.
Speaking of seats, I've got a white tufted seat for my 66 that is sun-poisoned , and a Pete's (or similar) rebuild kit. I've never split a banana seat pan so that rebuild will be a fun adventure. Any tips anyone?
Also speaking of seats, I found this wicked cool banana seat in a parts pile, down at the bottom of a box. It was filthy but cleaned up to "amazing". It's a light green, made by Persons exactly like a Stingray seat but gold glitter, and no riveted tag. Dunno what it fits. Anyone interested?
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http://s200.photobucket.com/albums/aa12 ... nseat1.jpg
Yeah and I've got my VW bus STILL torn apart in my friend's garage. Look in the background of some of the RRBB0 welding pics and you'll see it. It's white and the nose is all gutted out at the moment. I've got to finish welding on the inner bumper panel, install the new lower nose panel, finish cutting away all the upper panel rust under the windshield, and transplant a new panel into the nose/dash/windhield frame area. Little stuff. When that's done (it's been down a year but nothing was done on it for a couple months) I'll have a bike hauler again. Hopefully there won't be any issues sanding the whole thing down and respraying it Montana Red as oriignal.
Then I've got to replace shifters on my wife's GT mountain bike, disassemble and lube the bottom bracket on my ancient Trek mountain bike, get her Trek 600 road bike back up to speed, and swap bars for a friend's Trek so he can sell it. Trade, actually, for a Typhoon type of Schwinn.
Back to you!
--Rob
Sooooooo... That no-holds barred build off, that's gonna come soon, right? RIGHT? RIGHT?
