A week ago on Sunday I grabbed this off CL. Turned out to be a fellow RRB member and a really nice guy.
1960's Hawthorne. Already got it repainted and riding but no pictures of that yet. Seller also happened to have an exact match frame to replace a Monark frame I butchered years ago and sold me that as well. Nice! :wink:
Mid-way through the week I scooped this up from a friend that needed some quick cash. Initially we thought it was a bit older than it actually was. I pulled the crank out and found a '42 date. Schwinn New World model. Although it appears gold-ish silver in the photo with a little Goof Off I found the bike is actually a nice, deep burgundy color underneath. Working on stripping it back down while not destroying the original graphics. I also found that it looks like under a thin layer of overspray the sprocket is actually black which would fit with the build timeline.
Lastly today I hit a swap meet and brought these three gems home.
The Hiawatha has one of my all-time favorite springers. Although it's seen a shabby re-paint it's fairly complete and generally pretty nice. Tires even seem to hold air!
The Schwinn is nothing special. The headset bearings were frozen up which made it really fun to drag around. It also looks like someone made some very beefy brackets to potentially mount a banana seat on it at one time? At $10 I couldn't pass it up.
The last one I probably shouldn't have bought but it was also $10 and I was impulsive. Real disaster. Fork bent, chain destroyed and rusted solid, real turd-burger...but cheap! :mrgreen:
1960's Hawthorne. Already got it repainted and riding but no pictures of that yet. Seller also happened to have an exact match frame to replace a Monark frame I butchered years ago and sold me that as well. Nice! :wink:
Mid-way through the week I scooped this up from a friend that needed some quick cash. Initially we thought it was a bit older than it actually was. I pulled the crank out and found a '42 date. Schwinn New World model. Although it appears gold-ish silver in the photo with a little Goof Off I found the bike is actually a nice, deep burgundy color underneath. Working on stripping it back down while not destroying the original graphics. I also found that it looks like under a thin layer of overspray the sprocket is actually black which would fit with the build timeline.
Lastly today I hit a swap meet and brought these three gems home.
The Hiawatha has one of my all-time favorite springers. Although it's seen a shabby re-paint it's fairly complete and generally pretty nice. Tires even seem to hold air!
The Schwinn is nothing special. The headset bearings were frozen up which made it really fun to drag around. It also looks like someone made some very beefy brackets to potentially mount a banana seat on it at one time? At $10 I couldn't pass it up.
The last one I probably shouldn't have bought but it was also $10 and I was impulsive. Real disaster. Fork bent, chain destroyed and rusted solid, real turd-burger...but cheap! :mrgreen:
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