Rustinkerer said:Art, the only tool we have for this is old Sears catalogs. There's a book with copies of 1933-65 catalog pages, known as the Elgin/JC Higgins/Hawthorne book. 4593 sounds like a typical cat. #, and usually that's what the second set of numbers includes. They had some 4590 series numbers in 1951, and again in 58, but I couldn't find your exact number. EDIT: Just saw the pics in the Gallery, and it's a 58 or newer Flight/Spaceliner style frame. They generally stopped using the JC Higgins name after 1963, but that chainguard is more typical on mid 60s Sears bikes, though it was used on earlier Murray bikes, since they built most JCH's for Sears. -Adam
Hmmm. Normallly, it's 'MOD 502' together, but I've seen a few MOS stamped bikes also, all Murray Ohio codes, 'R' is thought to be 1959. 286 is the Sears model #, those are not decodeable by the book. Someone on the Cabe forum typed his numbers at the Sears parts direct site, and found a '63 date on the parts lists. I looked one up on there, but no dates.-Adammmbackpacker said:Hmmm, looking at my serial number on the bottom bracket I see:
MOSR
IOU 502 502 286
1364943
Again, the red "I" is a guess but I am pretty sure about the "OU"
Any ideas?
Rustinkerer said:Hmmm. Normallly, it's 'MOD 502' together, but I've seen a few MOS stamped bikes also, all Murray Ohio codes, 'R' is thought to be 1959. 286 is the Sears model #, those are not decodeable by the book. Someone on the Cabe forum typed his numbers at the Sears parts direct site, and found a '63 date on the parts lists. I looked one up on there, but no dates.-Adammmbackpacker said:Hmmm, looking at my serial number on the bottom bracket I see:
MOSR
IOU 502 502 286
1364943
Again, the red "I" is a guess but I am pretty sure about the "OU"
Any ideas?
:lol: I just did too, after seeing the whole bike pics in the fresh finds thread! Looks like it may be the companion to the men's 'exhaust header' bike. -AdamI would guess that your bike is from about 51-52-53
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