Des Moines, Iowa Black Phantom $1200 and dropping

[sworley]

1949 Original Chicago Schwinn Black Phantom bike - bicycles - by...

This bike is an original 1949 Chicago black phantom. The bike is very clean. The chrome is in great shape. There is a question about whether the paint has been redone or if it’s original. I don’t...

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Certainly some repop in there and maybe a repainted Chicago frame but the price on this keeps falling. They started it at a preposterous $3200 a month or so ago until it’s reduced down to this. Offer $800 and take it home?

 

[GTs58]

That's a 1949 PP! Phake Phantom. Definitely repaint, wrong tank decal full of repopped parts.

 

[Freqman1]

If you could get it for $800 there is plenty of meat on the bone, repo or not, to blow that apart and make a few $$. V/r Shawn

 

[vincev]

That's a 1949 PP! Phake Phantom. Definitely repaint, wrong tank decal full of repopped parts.

Not denying what you say but how can you tell the tank is incorrect ? The repops I have seen have a black piece at the front of the tank.

 

[phantom]

Once a frame is painted it's hard to tell what model it originally was. With that said, I would buy that bike before spending the same amount on a Centennial Phantom.

 

[Freqman1]

Not denying what you say but how can you tell the tank is incorrect ? The repops I have seen have a black piece at the front of the tank.

Wrong tank decal

 

[bobcycles]

That's a 1949 PP! Phake Phantom. Definitely repaint, wrong tank decal full of repopped parts.

early Phantoms often used that particular decal...
had a few og that way