Well this bike was a hassle to get, but it's finally home. For now it will sit in the project pile, while I take care of the current 3 that are going for sandblasting and PC soon.
I found this thing on Facebook in NJ and I am in MA, it was gonna work out great because I was working in PA and had to drive past the town it was in to get home. Well schedules changed so today I made a 6 hour round trip to go get it. The paint is really rough, the seat has a couple of tears that have been repaired with packing tape, the reflector under the seat is from a Ford it's stamped FoMoCo, the crank needs to be replaced it stripped out on one side so someone tried to shove a 9/16" adapter into the hole to hold the pedal on, the front wheel needs a little love there's a lot of slop in the axle and the coaster brake sticks a bit. I'll dig a crank out of the parts pile to get that going when I decide to rip this thing down to pack the bearings.
As for the rest well I think it's gonna get a little elbow grease to clean some of the parts up, I'll peel the tape off the seat and patch it with something better and just give it a good tuneup. I've wanted an Eliminator/Swinger frame in my collection for a while now so now I can say I have one.
I found this thing on Facebook in NJ and I am in MA, it was gonna work out great because I was working in PA and had to drive past the town it was in to get home. Well schedules changed so today I made a 6 hour round trip to go get it. The paint is really rough, the seat has a couple of tears that have been repaired with packing tape, the reflector under the seat is from a Ford it's stamped FoMoCo, the crank needs to be replaced it stripped out on one side so someone tried to shove a 9/16" adapter into the hole to hold the pedal on, the front wheel needs a little love there's a lot of slop in the axle and the coaster brake sticks a bit. I'll dig a crank out of the parts pile to get that going when I decide to rip this thing down to pack the bearings.
As for the rest well I think it's gonna get a little elbow grease to clean some of the parts up, I'll peel the tape off the seat and patch it with something better and just give it a good tuneup. I've wanted an Eliminator/Swinger frame in my collection for a while now so now I can say I have one.