30's Elgin add!!!

[rustyspoke66]

So I guess when you pick up a Elgin motobike and it has a flat bar on it, it could be correct. Just make's it streamlined. I found this add in a crawl space last week with not enough paper left for a date but was from a local sears add.

 

[bikewhorder]

Wow I've never seen those before. Its hard to believe these didn't catch on, they were way ahead of their time.

 

[Balloontyre]

Elgin = anything goes. Kinda like Mead.

 

[rustyspoke66]

I was thinking this may have been a local sales gimmick? Take your old clunky crossbrace bars off and put some cool steamline bars on.

 

[Balloontyre]

Here's another odd one, camelback with a cigar tank.

 

[Oldnut]

That camelback with that tank is killer stuff hmm anybody have on of those tanks?

 

[bikewhorder]

Here's another odd one, camelback with a cigar tank.

Damn! Do you have the time payment order blank in the back of the catalog? I want to start making my $5 a month payments for that one today!

 

[rustyspoke66]

Cool! Another indication that there was some goofy stuff going on outside the "all correct" catalog pages. That tank is a nice touch.

 

[Balloontyre]

Aug 1934 Mid summer sale catalog

Cool! Another indication that there was some goofy stuff going on outside the "all correct" catalog pages. That tank is a nice touch.

Here's another to dispute the "catalog correct"

 

[rustyspoke66]

Love it! I like how they added the number of frames still available to make people rush in to buy a Elgin before they are all gone.