Rust in Space, the rat rod version of Lost in Space. I have been lost trying to figure out a theme or even a name for this bike, a rusty, crusty late '60's Sears Spaceliner. I have run the gamut of ideas from a retro-futuristic Jetson's-like theme to rust bucket '60's muscle cars. Still don't know where this one is going so I decided to just dive in and let the bike tell me how it wants me to build it.
This is what I brought home awhile back...
The rims are pretty much shot. I knew that going in. Then I found the springer was broke after I got the bike home. The original handle bars are bent and the seat's kinda nasty. So here's the bike today after some fiddling around with some parts off an '80's Huffy Good Vibrations and some quality time with some 0000 steel wool...
Looks like most of the chrome is gonna shine up nicely, with just the right amount of rust to keep it ratty. Got a pair of 26x2.0 tires off my Electra I think I will use so I can get the fenders back on, but those ratty whitewalls are very tempting.
So it's a Murray built bike with some old Huffy parts. Perhaps it's a Hurray? Murray and Huffy were both originally from Ohio, like me. Maybe there's an angle. Hurray for Ohio? LOL
This is what I brought home awhile back...
The rims are pretty much shot. I knew that going in. Then I found the springer was broke after I got the bike home. The original handle bars are bent and the seat's kinda nasty. So here's the bike today after some fiddling around with some parts off an '80's Huffy Good Vibrations and some quality time with some 0000 steel wool...
Looks like most of the chrome is gonna shine up nicely, with just the right amount of rust to keep it ratty. Got a pair of 26x2.0 tires off my Electra I think I will use so I can get the fenders back on, but those ratty whitewalls are very tempting.
So it's a Murray built bike with some old Huffy parts. Perhaps it's a Hurray? Murray and Huffy were both originally from Ohio, like me. Maybe there's an angle. Hurray for Ohio? LOL