1968 Orange Krate on Ebay $10k

[razinhellcustomz]

What people seem to forget about flea bay is that there is no regulation on how much someone can list a item for when there should be

Why would somebody go to all the trouble to restore this early Stingray only to repaint the wrong color is just plain STUPID.Good luck cause he'll need it.

 

[razinhellcustomz]

Now that is Hilarious .

If that was an NOS 1968 Orange Krate still in its factory shipping box, heck yes 10k.

Forgot to mention the streamers make it look like a girls bike too.

 

[bobcycles]

Chestnut! Rarest Krate color of all! Should be 20K!

 

[Sped Man]

It is one of many that I have seen recently. People are trying to cash in with resprayed krates claiming them to be all original. When you see a collector with 10 pristine krates all in mint condition, you can assume 80%-90% of them were restored (repainted or heavily touched up).

 

[Grey Ghost]

I just sanded my 69 Orange Krate, shown in the pic below, down to bare metal since I thought it was the wrong color!
I was going to match this premo 68 Krate shade of, well, whatever it is.

NOW you tell me that this 10K Krate does not have the correct color?!?!?

Sumbich, now I have to start all over.

I guess mine was right all along. And the original paint was hard to get off.

 

[Robert Troub]

I’m surprised this seller is not on the cabe, he has several Krate bikes listed for sale on eBay
He has 100% positive feedback, so he’s doing something right
If you click on this listing, he has some….interesting info re this bike…interesting i.e. delusional

 

[EMG111]

Extremely Rare 1968 Schwinn 5-speed Orange Krate Stingray Bicycle​

Does being early Jan 68 add money to a wrong color Orange?
Rare 1968
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looks like poop. 90% of restorations are the wrong color this one is not even close, and the whole guard is painted, horrible look

 

[acg_schwinn]

looks like poop. 90% of restorations are the wrong color this one is not even close, and the whole guard is painted, horrible look

At a glance, if I wanted to have a Chestnut Krate (after first having to think up some other name for the chainguard since the name Orange Krate is taken), the finish of that repaint looks pretty good, but at the same time it's so far wrong in restoration terms that I cannot understand the point of all that handwaving about how gosh-darn rare it is. Well, of course it's rare; you made it up.

Chestnut didn't even exist until the 1974 model year, at which time Schwinn made a big splash of it in the catalog, showing it at least five times, including in the principal photo of every model for which it was one of the selection choices that year. I think they were looking for some color in between Sunset Orange and Sierra Brown, and this was a very popular shade at the time.