1935 Elgin Racer Tricycle restored

[preciador6]

 

[ridingtoy]

Beautiful restoration job on the Elgin Racer! I only hope to have near as good of skills when restoring some of mine when retiring in the near future.

A newcomer to the CABE site although I used to subscribe to the hardcopy CABE newsletter years ago. I'm also an avid tricycle collector. My favorite eras for collectable tricycles or velocipedes is the late 20s/mid 30s, and late 40s/early 50s when I was tricycle riding age.

My current tricycle collection:

2 Murray Chaindrive 1950s(?)
1 1933 Colson(?) 14" bike (OK, so I collect small bikes, too)
2 Midwest 1950s
1 Hedstrom 1950s
2 Taylors 1930s era and 1950s era
2 Colsons Circa 1950
1 1930s Toledo
1 1930s American National
1 Repro Sky King
1 1988 Roadmaster (our daughter's trike)
3 Velo King - 12", 16", and 20" models 1940s

The Velo Kings have all been disassembled waiting patiently for me to start restoring them. Jim Bailey recovered one of the seats for me years ago with black leather and original Troxel stamp. That's as far as restoration efforts have gone. I have some of my trike photos posted on Josh's Tricyclefetish site. Hope to get a chance to post some here, too.

I'm looking for a certain replacement tricycle that I had as a child in the early/mid 1950s. Mine was damaged in an apt bldg storage room fire that an arsonist started and my parents tossed it afterwards. Looking back, it was restorable since only the rear tires and paint were damaged, but no one restored damaged tricycles back then - they were just put out with the trash or for the junkman to pick up for the scrap value. I'll post some info about this tricycle a little later.

Dave

 

[Strings-n-Spokes]

This went a bit higher than I thought it would.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220585041826&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

 

[pedal alley]

cool tricycles

i been away for awhile.
dig this new section.
i have alot to catch up on here.
i have a few tricycles.think all of
mine are murray.one is a chain drive
skiptooth. maybe someday i'l get a
new camera then i can post pics.

 

[preciador6]

mines for sale. ill take the best offer

 

[npence]

Had my niece over today and she wanted to test drive the 1935 Elgin Racer.

She loved going flying down my drive way.

 

[Strings-n-Spokes]

Hmm I just realized that trike is smaller than our Racer. Our front tire is 20"!! It is HUGE. That looks like a 16" maybe 12" ? Awesome to see it in action!!

 

[PCHiggin]

Looks beautiful! It's probably pretty rare,a toy like that was more for rich kids before WW2.

Pat

 

[preciador6]

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[preciador6]

Thanks for the offer but $50.00 aint goint to cut it.