So I arrived at the Dudley Swap meet last Sunday two hours late. Show started at seven. I was bummed out cause I had a lot of bikes to sell. But to my surprise the place was jumping and people were eager to buy. Because I was late in arriving I stayed later than most of the other vendors. Finally around 3pm I started loading out. As I was loading my last bike and talking to a friend a 71 year old local man can up to us and asked us if we knew anything about old bikes. We told him we knew a little and he proceeded to take a freshly printed 8x10 glossy photo out of his jacket pocket. The photo turned out to be of a almost all original 1950 Schwinn Black Phantom!!!! Which he had owned for 61 years and received as a Christmas present in 1950. He said he would like to sell it, I made him an offer he accepted, got into our vehicles and headed to his lake shore home 2 miles away. What are the odds or coming across an original Phantom and the original owner? If I had arrived at the show early I would have left early and missed out on this killer find. The bicycle gods were smiling upon me!
