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Murray serial number project.
Great! Thanks for the reply- joleothetall
- Post #402
- Forum: Classic Balloon Tire Bicycles 1933-1965
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Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Nice! Thanks. Somebody said he thinks it’s a 62 or 63 over on the Murray serial number thread but that’s the only response I’ve gotten over there. It’s looking like mid-fifties to early sixties sometime though- joleothetall
- Post #61
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Ok cool! Thanks for the info. I’ll give it another look tomorrow and see what I can see. I kind of shudder to take a wire brush to it too, but I think it might have been repainted at some point anyway though so we’ll see. Either way, we’ll give it a look- joleothetall
- Post #59
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Thanks! I’m excited about them- joleothetall
- Post #58
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
I just realized I didn’t add the pictures of the crank. Here they are- joleothetall
- Post #53
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
You make a compelling case 😂 To my eyes, the serial number on the bottom of the Schwinn Flyer looks similar to the one in the thread you posted. I got some pictures of the crank but didn’t see anything obvious. Hopefully somebody else will. The inside of the BB is red for what it’s worth so it...- joleothetall
- Post #51
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Just tried that out this morning but still no luck. That one’s being stubborn- joleothetall
- Post #50
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Man… I had it all nice and figured out in my head and you threw a wrench in it 😂- joleothetall
- Post #46
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Nice! Thanks! I love that one. They’re all cool but I just love it’s shape- joleothetall
- Post #45
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Huh… that’s weird. Another mystery I guess. I’m hoping something will pop out when I start in on it, but nothing yet- joleothetall
- Post #44
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
It’s 3 1/2” vertically- joleothetall
- Post #39
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Ooh good call. I’ll keep an eye out when I take it all apart- joleothetall
- Post #38
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
That seems to be the general consensus. I just can’t find a serial number to confirm it- joleothetall
- Post #35
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Murray serial number project.
Hi all! I recently brought a few bikes home including a Murray built J.C. Higgins and I’ve been looking for some info on date, model, etc. I was sent over here to see what I could find out. Here are the photos I have and the numbers on the drop out are 502 45161 335156.- joleothetall
- Post #400
- Forum: Classic Balloon Tire Bicycles 1933-1965
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Ah makes sense. So old blue is looking like a 1951 Schwinn with some Western Flyer accessories then. Thanks for the picture! You’re right, that dropout is definitely different, but the number matches up and the rest of it does look really similar minus the tank, rack, and springers. I’ll post...- joleothetall
- Post #33
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Here are a few more pictures of the bottom bracket- joleothetall
- Post #30
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
You know it!- joleothetall
- Post #29
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Oh yeah you’re right! That’s a good catch. I didn’t even notice.- joleothetall
- Post #28
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Alright y’all, here are some post-initial-scrub glamor shots for you. Not a whole lot of new revelations but they sure are a lot prettier. It looks like the CWC was repainted at some point which tracks with what my aunt told me (she said grandpa redid one of them for her a long time ago and...- joleothetall
- Post #27
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Ha! That’s fair. It’s just where the search started so that’s all the info I had originally. I haven’t had a chance to dig much into that serial number thread but I’ll definitely give it a look. This one seems to be an oddball though whatever the case.- joleothetall
- Post #24
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
There’s no dropout? I thought it had them. The location of the serial number clue makes sense. I found it on the bottom bracket which, if I’m understanding correctly, isn’t where it should be if it’s later than 1952.- joleothetall
- Post #23
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
You’re probably right lol. I’m just passing opinions back and forth between the two forums. Nobody seems to know for sure what the deal is with that one. I’ll see if I can get the bottom bracket cleaned up a bit today and get some better pictures. Anything for you 😁- joleothetall
- Post #22
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
We hope so anyway!- joleothetall
- Post #17
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
That’s all good info to know. Somebody over on rat rod bikes said they think it’s maybe a 1953 that got stamped on the bottom bracket with a five digit number just before they switched to stamping the rear drop out but I really don’t know. That one’s a mystery to me.- joleothetall
- Post #15
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Nice, I’ll give both of those a look- joleothetall
- Post #14
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Cool! Is there a link to somewhere that describes how those number codes work? I’ve looked around but I can’t seem to make any sense of it. I saw somewhere that the 502 is a Murray built Sears bike but I couldn’t make heads or tails out of the rest of the number.- joleothetall
- Post #11
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Interesting, help me out here then. When I use the Schwinn serial number tool it comes back as a 1953. I also looked up a Schwinn numbers list and it seems like it would fit that year. What makes you think it’s earlier?- joleothetall
- Post #10
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Yeah that was me… Between nuts and bolts being rusted together and dwindling daylight I just undid the brake arms on a couple of them to get the back wheels off so they would all fit in my car- joleothetall
- Post #7
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
That’s what somebody over on rat rod bikes said too. I ran the serial number and it says it I s a Schwinn and was built in 1953. The only bike that it looks like in the catalog from that year is the Spitfire. This may be a stupid question, but I don’t suppose that Schwinn ever produced bikes for...- joleothetall
- Post #6
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Thanks! Im pretty excited. I’m looking forward to doing some work on them. Get them back to their former glory a bit.- joleothetall
- Post #5
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Hello all! This is my first post, though this is not my first go round with vintage bikes. I went to visit my late grandpa’s old farm yesterday and came back with four old bicycles, a 26” Cleveland Welding Co. Roadmaster, a 26” J.C. Higgins, a 24” Western Flyer, and a 20” that I can’t find a...- joleothetall
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- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Murray serial number project.
Great! Thanks for the reply- joleothetall
- Post #402
- Forum: Classic Balloon Tire Bicycles 1933-1965
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Nice! Thanks. Somebody said he thinks it’s a 62 or 63 over on the Murray serial number thread but that’s the only response I’ve gotten over there. It’s looking like mid-fifties to early sixties sometime though- joleothetall
- Post #61
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Ok cool! Thanks for the info. I’ll give it another look tomorrow and see what I can see. I kind of shudder to take a wire brush to it too, but I think it might have been repainted at some point anyway though so we’ll see. Either way, we’ll give it a look- joleothetall
- Post #59
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Thanks! I’m excited about them- joleothetall
- Post #58
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
I just realized I didn’t add the pictures of the crank. Here they are- joleothetall
- Post #53
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
You make a compelling case 😂 To my eyes, the serial number on the bottom of the Schwinn Flyer looks similar to the one in the thread you posted. I got some pictures of the crank but didn’t see anything obvious. Hopefully somebody else will. The inside of the BB is red for what it’s worth so it...- joleothetall
- Post #51
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Just tried that out this morning but still no luck. That one’s being stubborn- joleothetall
- Post #50
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Man… I had it all nice and figured out in my head and you threw a wrench in it 😂- joleothetall
- Post #46
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Nice! Thanks! I love that one. They’re all cool but I just love it’s shape- joleothetall
- Post #45
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Huh… that’s weird. Another mystery I guess. I’m hoping something will pop out when I start in on it, but nothing yet- joleothetall
- Post #44
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
It’s 3 1/2” vertically- joleothetall
- Post #39
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Ooh good call. I’ll keep an eye out when I take it all apart- joleothetall
- Post #38
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
That seems to be the general consensus. I just can’t find a serial number to confirm it- joleothetall
- Post #35
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Murray serial number project.
Hi all! I recently brought a few bikes home including a Murray built J.C. Higgins and I’ve been looking for some info on date, model, etc. I was sent over here to see what I could find out. Here are the photos I have and the numbers on the drop out are 502 45161 335156.- joleothetall
- Post #400
- Forum: Classic Balloon Tire Bicycles 1933-1965
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Ah makes sense. So old blue is looking like a 1951 Schwinn with some Western Flyer accessories then. Thanks for the picture! You’re right, that dropout is definitely different, but the number matches up and the rest of it does look really similar minus the tank, rack, and springers. I’ll post...- joleothetall
- Post #33
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Here are a few more pictures of the bottom bracket- joleothetall
- Post #30
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
You know it!- joleothetall
- Post #29
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Oh yeah you’re right! That’s a good catch. I didn’t even notice.- joleothetall
- Post #28
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Alright y’all, here are some post-initial-scrub glamor shots for you. Not a whole lot of new revelations but they sure are a lot prettier. It looks like the CWC was repainted at some point which tracks with what my aunt told me (she said grandpa redid one of them for her a long time ago and...- joleothetall
- Post #27
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Ha! That’s fair. It’s just where the search started so that’s all the info I had originally. I haven’t had a chance to dig much into that serial number thread but I’ll definitely give it a look. This one seems to be an oddball though whatever the case.- joleothetall
- Post #24
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
There’s no dropout? I thought it had them. The location of the serial number clue makes sense. I found it on the bottom bracket which, if I’m understanding correctly, isn’t where it should be if it’s later than 1952.- joleothetall
- Post #23
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
You’re probably right lol. I’m just passing opinions back and forth between the two forums. Nobody seems to know for sure what the deal is with that one. I’ll see if I can get the bottom bracket cleaned up a bit today and get some better pictures. Anything for you 😁- joleothetall
- Post #22
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
We hope so anyway!- joleothetall
- Post #17
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
That’s all good info to know. Somebody over on rat rod bikes said they think it’s maybe a 1953 that got stamped on the bottom bracket with a five digit number just before they switched to stamping the rear drop out but I really don’t know. That one’s a mystery to me.- joleothetall
- Post #15
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Nice, I’ll give both of those a look- joleothetall
- Post #14
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Cool! Is there a link to somewhere that describes how those number codes work? I’ve looked around but I can’t seem to make any sense of it. I saw somewhere that the 502 is a Murray built Sears bike but I couldn’t make heads or tails out of the rest of the number.- joleothetall
- Post #11
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Interesting, help me out here then. When I use the Schwinn serial number tool it comes back as a 1953. I also looked up a Schwinn numbers list and it seems like it would fit that year. What makes you think it’s earlier?- joleothetall
- Post #10
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Yeah that was me… Between nuts and bolts being rusted together and dwindling daylight I just undid the brake arms on a couple of them to get the back wheels off so they would all fit in my car- joleothetall
- Post #7
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
That’s what somebody over on rat rod bikes said too. I ran the serial number and it says it I s a Schwinn and was built in 1953. The only bike that it looks like in the catalog from that year is the Spitfire. This may be a stupid question, but I don’t suppose that Schwinn ever produced bikes for...- joleothetall
- Post #6
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Thanks! Im pretty excited. I’m looking forward to doing some work on them. Get them back to their former glory a bit.- joleothetall
- Post #5
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles
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J
Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information
Hello all! This is my first post, though this is not my first go round with vintage bikes. I went to visit my late grandpa’s old farm yesterday and came back with four old bicycles, a 26” Cleveland Welding Co. Roadmaster, a 26” J.C. Higgins, a 24” Western Flyer, and a 20” that I can’t find a...- joleothetall
- Thread
- Replies: 61
- Forum: General Discussion About Old Bicycles