I drug this middleweight out of storage the other day. It was my dad's bike. He got it used. As long as I can remember it had chrome (or maybe stainless) fenders on it, but they were dented and the front one didn't fit right. Sometime in the 80s I bought him some new Wald fenders, also chrome.
I was just looking around on the CABE at the serial number lists, and on some other site that has old Schwinn catalogs hoping to figure out what year it is. I came up with 1961. As it turns out, every catalog picture of a Speedster middleweight has painted fenders. Was Chrome optional? Or is it a safe bet this bike had painted fenders on it when it was new?
I was just looking around on the CABE at the serial number lists, and on some other site that has old Schwinn catalogs hoping to figure out what year it is. I came up with 1961. As it turns out, every catalog picture of a Speedster middleweight has painted fenders. Was Chrome optional? Or is it a safe bet this bike had painted fenders on it when it was new?