I was goin to post my Le Tour's Head tube badge. On first inspection when purchased I thought it was stamped 1982 when looked at with the my bare eyes (And that seemed right). Once I took a photo it is definately says 1932.
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Cool, I guess I have a ultra rare 1932 Schwinn Letour.
I thought I had a positive date of 1982, but now I'm going to have to look up the frame numbers to identify. How common are mis-stamped badges?
(Edit: I just figured out from the above post that the actual year is not stamped, and it was just a coincidence that it looked like it was mis-stamped,)
My Le Tour serial number starts in SF227
XXX. The numeric numbering is also similar to a 1982 Letour, but what does the "F" stand for?
I thought it was Chicago made, but now am not so sure. My previos Le Tour had a Japan badge on the headtube and i thought a Chicago badge indicated it was not made in Japan.
Mine looks similar in year to the one "Winglover" posted up above.
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Winglover, does yours also have a Chicago headtube badge? As I know some years came with a Japan badge.
Here is another link with information about componetry, and colors that might help both of us.
https://bikehistory.org/bikes/letour/
We both have the 1020 Carbon Steel frames, many of the other years had Chrome-Moly frames. Maybe this will help determine country of orgin.