Whelp, that chinches it. In OH, Copper is gold.
Actually, this, apparently rare model, 'Golden' caused me to consider other 'gold' bike shades. They're, for the most part, more Coppertone too. I looked quite a bit especially after this model popped up. I would expect; for all of the advertising literature especially, colored yellow it seems, yellow-gold tones in metal flake just doesn't mix very well.
This Huffy in 67 is not indifferent to Schwinn's 'copper-gold' tone too. IDK about this except think it's considered to be a 'copper' color'.
It looks very similar to Shelby's 'Golden"
Yet, here's another that appears to be as close as close to gold as it gets. However, it's garnished with gold decals where, side by side, in the image below, it looses it to the slight yellow/orange. Actually closer to the yellow colors Shelby used in advertising print:
Regardless, Cudos
U finally found the Golden Shelby, or that is, an example that proves yours to be the Golden Eagle you thought it to be.
Sesh, what an exhausting hunt it's been too.