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Schwinn Sales West
Cruisin' on my Bluebird
This is an example of what you get when you clamp your Park Repair Stand Clamp on top of any decal and twist the bike in the clamp. Clamp in an area with "no decals or stickers". The best and safest place to clamp is on the seat post.Flint Indian Sales ... Sold Schwinn's ...
Today is a parking lot.
FLINT INDIAN SALES AUCTION, 1992
The Flint, Michigan Auction….20th and 21st October 1992. by Dennis Quinlan Extract from “The Flint Journal”, Thurs.22nd Oct.1992. “The smell...motorcycleandmotorcycle.blogspot.com
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John
Schwinn Sales West
Cruisin' on my Bluebird
This is a really interesting thread. It brings back fun memories of the past.
It's amazing to me when looking at all of your dealer decal examples how many of them were originally placed on the bike crooked. What's the deal, were the bike assemblers in that big of a hurry, were the bikes assembled with the same lack of pride in workmanship?
In our family dealership we sold Schwinn as well as several other "quality" brands. One of the brands was Astra that we purchased locally from Bencomo Sales, it was a low-cost bike and we found it to be top quality French made bicycle. It was manufactured by Motobecane, so we looked for the U.S. distributor to become a dealer. It was sold in the U.S. by a former Raleigh manager, Ben Lawee out of Long Beach. Lawee later developed the Univega brand with Asian product sourcing. Ben was really into the big brass headlight cars and each year made a trip to the Barrett Jackson Auction in Scottsdale, AZ. He stopped into visit his Arizona dealers during these trips "likely to write off the trip as a business expense", LOL. Ben was a very good artistic designer; he was really into colors and graphics. During one of his visits at our dealership he looked at a Motobecane Mirage we had just assembled. Without saying a word he reached down and removed our store decal we had just installed. He did not like how we placed it next to "his decal design". We had to place our decal down near the bottom bracket to satisfy Ben, LOL.
This thread reminded me of our little "run in" with Ben Lawee over dealer decal placement.
John
It's amazing to me when looking at all of your dealer decal examples how many of them were originally placed on the bike crooked. What's the deal, were the bike assemblers in that big of a hurry, were the bikes assembled with the same lack of pride in workmanship?
In our family dealership we sold Schwinn as well as several other "quality" brands. One of the brands was Astra that we purchased locally from Bencomo Sales, it was a low-cost bike and we found it to be top quality French made bicycle. It was manufactured by Motobecane, so we looked for the U.S. distributor to become a dealer. It was sold in the U.S. by a former Raleigh manager, Ben Lawee out of Long Beach. Lawee later developed the Univega brand with Asian product sourcing. Ben was really into the big brass headlight cars and each year made a trip to the Barrett Jackson Auction in Scottsdale, AZ. He stopped into visit his Arizona dealers during these trips "likely to write off the trip as a business expense", LOL. Ben was a very good artistic designer; he was really into colors and graphics. During one of his visits at our dealership he looked at a Motobecane Mirage we had just assembled. Without saying a word he reached down and removed our store decal we had just installed. He did not like how we placed it next to "his decal design". We had to place our decal down near the bottom bracket to satisfy Ben, LOL.
This thread reminded me of our little "run in" with Ben Lawee over dealer decal placement.
John
koolbikes
I live for the CABE
You can tell I look at a lot of bicycles from all the dealer decals ... I enjoy researching the history of the bicycle shops and if their still alive!
It's funny you mentioned the placement of the Dealer decals ... local Schwinn Cyclery near me, Al Petri & Sons were very particular at placing their decal as posted below the Schwinn Quality Crest, found a lot of their bicycles this way.
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