Sears slingshot

[Nick W]

I cant wait to clean this up and ride it. Bought from original owner who put it in the shed in 1975, and the shed collapsed this year so they sold it. Well, its on its way to me

 

[rfeagleye]

Congrats Nick! Looks like a nice project there! The Sears branded Huffy bikes are cool, those insert seats from Persons are awesome.

 

[rfeagleye]

One more thing...it is a somewhat rare one, as you don't see many long frame Slingshots branded Sears.

 

[Nick W]

One more thing...it is a somewhat rare one, as you don't see many long frame Slingshots branded Sears.

Does that mean valuable, i plan to keep everything original and just clean it up

 

[rfeagleye]

Yes, that means more value. The Sears Gremlins are usually the short framed version of the Huffy twin top bar frame. I don't know the exact year offhand on your bike, but it is a 1971-72. The frame will have an H or C and then a number for the year.

I know yours is a 1971 or 1972 from the BMA-6 sticker.

A twin stick Huffy is on eBay for a whole bunch of cash right now, I don't know what your bike would bring the same money, but it is worth something.

Nice find man!

 

[ODDER]

Cool find man.

 

[CRASH]

Great find! I sent you a PM with something that will help you out.

 

[Nick W]

Just ordered a replacement tire for it, thanks Crash

 

[Nick W]

She is cleaning up...

 

[Jaxon]

I am surprised there was that much color left on the frame. Cool save on it.

 

[Jaxon]

Just ordered a replacement tire for it, thanks Crash

Where did you order the Cheater Slick from?.......lol

 

[Nick W]

I was able to save the rear slick, it wasn't as bad as I thought it was, the frame still has some more cleaning to be done, that was just half of it, hopefully the rest of it turns out like this! The rest will clean up, but it will take a lot of time for deruting. I will update as we get further along

 

[CRASH]

Where did you order the Cheater Slick from?.......lol

It was a Sears front tire on EBay.

 

[Nick W]

Cleaning up, turning out to be a nice survivor

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Looks good!
When you load a pic there is a button to 'show full size' you can push...

I am surprised the paint came back that nice looking at the before photo...

Luke.

 

[Nick W]

I did a mock up before final assembly, i think she looks great

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Looking good!

Luke.

 

[rfeagleye]

Man Nick great job!

 

[clearspot]

Nice! I love those paint fades!

 

[Nick W]

Just received the front tire, i need to get replacement spokes for the front wheel and we will be in buisness