Couple of JC Higgins

[dwest]

Thanks for the info. I think I will clean them up and sell them.

I would like to buy the 1960 deluxe as is
LMK when

 

[Goldslinger]

Would you be picking it up? NW Pa.

 

[dwest]

Would you be picking it up? NW Pa.

I don’t live near to you.
If it wouldn’t be trouble maybe drop it at a local bike shop and I could have it boxed up and I’ll arrange p/up for ship.

 

[Trexoffroad]

I have this same bike! But it’s missing the tank. Been searching for a week to identify it.

 

[Rivnut]

Early 60s J C Higgins Flightliner.

 

[partsguy]

That Flightliner is a CLASSIC…$200 for the pair is a GREAT price. If that Flightliner is complete, and it sure looks like it, you’ve got a very nice ride. Not high dollar, but very nice. Probably worth about $300 if you can get everything working and cleaned up. Maybe more to the right person. They only made the Flightliner from 1958-60, I think. The Spaceliner went from 1961 through 1966/67.

The other bike is a base model, and worth maybe $100-$150 cleaned up and tuned.

 

[AndyA]

They only made the Flightliner from 1958-60, I think. The Spaceliner went from 1961 through 1966/67.

We referred this to the Nitpick Committee. Flightliners were sold 1958 through 1963. Spaceliners from 1964 through 1968. Love them all!

 

[Rivnut]

Flightliners we’re marketed by Sears under the JC Higgins brand name. When Sears started marketing bikes under the corporate brand name of Sears, the bikes were sold as Spaceliners. That marketing strategy took place in 1964. Pretty simple.

 

[AndyA]

Flightliners we’re marketed by Sears under the JC Higgins brand name. When Sears started marketing bikes under the corporate brand name of Sears, the bikes were sold as Spaceliners. That marketing strategy took place in 1964. Pretty simple.

True. But also important is that the frame designs of the boys bikes were distinctively different. The red bike in post #17 is a (almost) stock Flightliner. The silver bike is a rat rod Spaceliner. Note the frames.

 

[Rivnut]

I’m just talking about nomenclature, nothing to do with styling.