64 Lime

[mrg]

I haven’t posted this June 64 line for a while, They say every bike has a story I wish I knew this one, the guy I got it from just said she got it from a lady in Reno and it was her husbands, looks like a kid and his dad did some customizing back in the day, first of all a 1957 SA 3 speed laced into a 36 spoke S2, Correct dated tires with some custom lettering, extra wide handlebars ( at least a couple inches wider than Schwinn OG ) with a stamped neck wrapped in lime tape as is the mid hi sissy bar with custom car antenna Wrapped in and all OG paint, I think that’s the nicest chain guard I’ve ever seen and check the green reflector screwed in for rear screw. The only problem is ( can’t even tell from a distance ) top bar has no paint left and they wrapped it with green tape. All I did was to put on some OG bars and neck ( hung the other ones and the nice seat in the garage ), put a seat on with a metal flag green seat cover ( cause I had one on my original 64 when I was a kid that I posted pictures of here before ), Is this how they customize them in Reno or chances are it came out of Cali sometime in the past.

 

[unregistered]

Wild! Love it! Amazing find!

 

[stingrayjoe]

Kool bike!

Bob's Big Boy and the white T Bird reminds me of American Graffiti.

 

[mrg]

Ya, we had a legendary drive-in started in the late 50's as Harvey's then Johnny's Broiler that the owner tried to illegally tear down on a sunday 10-15 yrs ago, long story short the City of Downey worked with the owner of a few Bob's Big Boys and reconstructed partially destoried building OG building and car hop drive-in, now its a Bob's Broiler with Bob out front and the original Harvey's Big Boy out back. Didn’t take many pictures back then but rode my original 64 when I am over there many times for a burger and check out the hot rods back in the mid 60's!

 

[spoker]

nice bike,would like to find one of those rear brake conversion pieces,would like to convert a single speed american to a 3 speed