Any info on a Delmar?

[fordmike65]

Looks like a '37. Replaced fender braces. Possibly carryover 36 fenders, or replaced all together at sometime, since most 37's have peaked fenders. Correct dropcenters for '37. '36 would have straightsides aka tripledrops. Much later saddle, bars look correct. Stem a replacement. Are there holes in the rear fender for a dropstand clip?

 

[rebirthbikes]

Cool LWB! with a few wrong parts, looks like reg drop centers and not triple steps tho.

Thank you! I’m looking forward to getting it cleaned up and back on the road. Yep, I got pretty excited and typed triple step by accident. Good callout.

 

[rebirthbikes]

Looks like a '37. Replaced fender braces. Possibly carryover 36 fenders, or replaced all together at sometime, since most 37's have peaked fenders. Correct dropcenters for '37. '36 would have straightsides aka tripledrops. Much later saddle, bars look correct. Stem a replacement. Are there holes in the rear fender for a dropstand clip?

Hey hey! Thank you for the heads up on all of that. There are holes for the drop stand clip, but I checked for it and the drop stand — I never found them.

What stem would have normally come on this model?

thank you for all your help!

 

[fordmike65]

Hey hey! Thank you for the heads up on all of that. There are holes for the drop stand clip, but I checked for it and the drop stand — I never found them.

What stem would have normally come on this model?

thank you for all your help!

The proprietary Colson stem was introduced in '37, so either that one, a motorbike style or possibly even a Torrington BevLoc as most 36's used.

 

[fordmike65]

Bevloc

Upright motobike type

Colson stem

 

[rebirthbikes]

Bevloc
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Upright motobike type
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Colson stem
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The photos are super helpful, thank you for sharing them! I may have a spare upright in my bin of parts. I think I had a bevloc years ago from a girls Colson, but I think I sold it.
I’ll take a look. Thank you, Mike, I sincerely appreciate all the help with this one .

 

[srfndoc]

My Delmar badged 36 Colson Motorbike:

 

[rebirthbikes]

@srfndoc that is beautiful!!