bf goodrich?

[spoker]

heres a kinda strange one,looks like an og bf goodrich starlett,looks like it had the bf decal put on over the schwinn decal on the round ine on the chainguard,has the bf headbadge,the tires say standard,not silvertons

 

[BFGforme]

I think when they put some of these bikes together they put the Goodrich sticker over the schwinn ones as I have had a few where you could see the schwinn under it! They were untouched original bikes!

 

[kos22us]

whoa haven't seen or heard of this before, deff. all looks og, cool

 

[spoker]

werent the tires usually sivertones?the lady that owns it got it new,she is the og owner,74 yrs old,frame date is 4-9.4-15 1953,ive seen these with the darts and some with the rams type paint,the 2 diverent paint schemes would have the rank reverse painted,the blue and white on the tanks would be reversd,one wiuld be

 

[spoker]

heres a pic of the claw type paint on thr head tube vs the darts,dark color in the front if the horntank vs white on the front of the tank and darker color on the bottom,im in the dark mark why some had spear paint and why some had the claw type on the head tube

 

[rollfaster]

Very nice!

 

[GTs58]

heres a pic of the claw type paint on thr head tube vs the darts,dark color in the front if the horntank vs white on the front of the tank and darker color on the bottom,im in the dark mark why some had spear paint and why some had the claw type on the head tube

Different models had different paint schemes and sometimes Schwinn changed the scheme from one year to the next. The B-6 was the Streamliner with the spear detailing for 1953 and then in 1954 that model name went to the scallop paint scheme and the Rocket Ray light losing the built in fender light, plus the model # was changed to D-16.

 

[spoker]

your proly on 2 somthing because this is an early 53,setial j40056 wich puts it 4-9theu 4-15 of 53,like to find an og blue and white tank

 

[BFGforme]

Early BFG pre-war had totally different paint scheme then other schwinns with arrows sort of...

 

[GTs58]

Early BFG pre-war had totally different paint scheme then other schwinns with arrows sort of...

I think all that changed sometime in the 50's. Haven't followed that detail much to say exactly when that happened but had to be before the release of the middleweights.