Picked this up a couple of weeks ago from CL after foolishly passing it up at the A2-Saline show a week earlier.Listed as a '61 straight bar it's a DX frame set with a Spitfire badge and nice original paint. Previous owner nabbed the skiptooth crankset & nothing else. With a production date of May 27, 1953 I felt an obligation to get it back on the road by it's 60th birthday. I've never commemorated a bike's "birthday" before; I'm not that much like Pee Wee Herman Lacking an appropriate wheelset, I found a '96 Schwinn ladies Cruiser & stripped it down. A raid on my parts stash & two build sessions later...drum roll please...
Wheels, tires, seat & grips are '96 Cruiser, crankset & BB are '57 Corvette, pedals are '70's Collegiate, bars are older Wald with a 29" span, goose neck is stamped "AS 66", seat post & clamp are Varsity but I have a correct set from '53 somewhere. Bought the springer ages ago as part of a lot of springer parts on eBay, not sure of it's origins, but the steer tube has an S stamped on it.