If your Cruiser 5 is from 1985, it may have been built in Tennessee. Schwinn had a two year contract with Murray to build the electro-forged bikes in Lawrenceburg after they closed down Chicago, after that they went overseas to Giant in Taiwan, sometime around 1985. You may want to double check which one you have.
i believe it was Tennessee, to my knowledge this means, the frame has the old style welds made with the original machines, but the other components were contracted out to murray. The new style taiwan frames did not use the original equipment and the welds look different. The one i have have the brazed looking weld although according to what ive read they were electro forged and ground down to have the smooth brazed look.
PS thanks everybody for the answers
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