My rare columbia!

[MORTUNDEAD]

Got this bike two days ago. Re-covered the seat, added whitewalls,and now its a rider. I paid 150, and this frame is unlike any i have seen. the frame reads "special", and the serial number only has 3 illegible punched-in letters on the bottom bracket. Also, anyone out there got a front fender for one of these?

 

[ratina]

Looks like a Newsboy Special

 

[62hotrod]

yea it does look alike

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[user 13947]

The lines look like a Columbia for sure to me...

 

[Michigan Rick]

I don't have a pic of mine but I had an original paint 5 Star with the same frame...no place for tank....mine had the 105ga spokes but no cutout for a belt BUT a Whizzer supercollector traded me 3 real nice bikes for it back in the late 80's...he said it was built for a Whizzer but never had a motor installed....it had the rims with dimples around spoke holes and a handlebar with a crossbar......might have been a fancy model Newsboy Special......but I'm going with the Whizzer story!

 

[MORTUNDEAD]

My rims have huge heavy spokes and there are narks on the frame where motor may have been Now i have to motorize it