1965 Schwinn Typhoon Restomod

[razinhellcustomz]

Is it wrong to have more than one project bike going at once? Good, because here’s my third. I was looking for a completely trashed bike that was complete and largely dent free and I found it 100 miles away just north of the Tappan Zee/ Gov. Cuomo bridge in NY. I made the trip worthwhile by walking the bridge path which I can highly recommend. Actually, the bike made the trip worthwhile all by itself. The plan is strip it down to the frame, powder coat the frame, fork, chain guard and fenders, rebuild the Bendix redline coaster and front hubs and hunt up some replacements for the rims, seat and handlebars that were chrome plated brown air. Goal is not to bring it back to showroom, but to make it look really hot in a retro way: candy apple/black cherry red with flat black components, since the chrome won’t clean up. I’m leaving the hubs and the chain wheel/crank chrome since those cleaned up beautifully. Bought a white Typhoon decal set. The big 5 parts are off at the powder coater and everything else is either soaking in mineral spirits or Evaporust. Wish me luck.

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Yes it's totally wrong to have more than one project going at a time. REALLY? Nah, as I've got 4 or 5 proje ts going and don't know if I'm coming or going at times.. I like where your hoping with this Typhoon. Keep us posted.. Good luck.. Mark..

 

[razinhellcustomz]

I'd get some new fenders. by coincidence, I have a set of middleweight fenders to sell. shipping might kill the deal though.

You got that right Paul, just got some bars and other stuff and it was big money to ship...

 

[razinhellcustomz]

Frame, fork and chain guard back from powder coater. Color is a very dark candy apple red called “Illusion Cherry.” Bottom of the front fender was rusted through, unfortunately. My plan is to lay up a layer of fiberglass and epoxy on the inside of the fender and sand flush anything that bleeds through to the other side, then skin it with Bondo if necessary. As to paint color, I won’t be able to match the frame with a rattle can so I’m going to have to paint them an accent color. Leaning towards flat black. Any opinions?

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That fender is TOAST, be better off cutting off the bad part and flip it around or let Paul hook you up...

 

[razinhellcustomz]

Kind of a tangent, but that place does cars really Halfass wouldn’t recommend buying from them given their prices and experiences from working on cars people bought from there. Big time lick and slick jobs so they look great, but are really really crappy cars underneath all the layers of paint and bondo. They’ll look good for maybe 5 years, but only on the outside. Just look at the front fender on this car vs the doors and quarters. Notice any color differences? I sure do. Lick and slick. Front end was wrecked, so they blew a close color paint over a different front end and put it on. Open the door jambs, they’ll look like crap guaranteed.

Wow, the mismatch is so obvious you don't even have to look that hard for it.. So how much is this HEAP OF BONDO AND paint any way? Thanks for the heads up Dane..

 

[Drosentreter]

Wow, the mismatch is so obvious you don't even have to look that hard for it.. So how much is this HEAP OF BONDO AND paint any way? Thanks for the heads up Dane..

I’d guess around 30k based on other cars I’ve seen from them. I know a guy who bought a 68 Camaro from them for 30k in the same color. The car was originally white. How could I tell? No paint on the bottoms of the doors, and the door jambs weren’t prepped before they sprayed so the paint was peeling to reveal the white underneath. He bought the car with all kinds of mechanical problems, and brought it to us to fix. We put it on the lift, and the frame was a greasy oily mess. The engine bay looked even worse. It ended up with a different motor, different transmission, and a different rear diff. And then it still had problems with wiring, gauges, and everything else. As always you wish you would have been there to help them make a purchasing decision, as he could have gotten a much better car for 30k

 

[GTs58]

I’d guess around 30k based on other cars I’ve seen from them. I know a guy who bought a 68 Camaro from them for 30k in the same color. The car was originally white. How could I tell? No paint on the bottoms of the doors, and the door jambs weren’t prepped before they sprayed so the paint was peeling to reveal the white underneath. He bought the car with all kinds of mechanical problems, and brought it to us to fix. We put it on the lift, and the frame was a greasy oily mess. The engine bay looked even worse. It ended up with a different motor, different transmission, and a different rear diff. And then it still had problems with wiring, gauges, and everything else. As always you wish you would have been there to help them make a purchasing decision, as he could have gotten a much better car for 30k

The picture of the Nomad I posted was for a color reference only, not a topic to hijack this thread.

 

[PlasticNerd]

Only THREE projects? LOL LOL I have a dozen at minimum !! Keep up the good fight.

 

[TequilaMockingbird]

Only THREE projects? LOL LOL I have a dozen at minimum !! Keep up the good fight.

3 is just the bicycles.

 

[PlasticNerd]

3 is just the bicycles.

12 is just the projects- 45-50 is the total bikes

 

[Rivnut]

One project at a time? Ha! Right now I think that there are 7 frames hanging from the rafters in the garage with complementary boxes of parts and pairs of wheels on the shelves. And the winter blahs are just starting to lift.