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Sold F/S Bicentennial 5 speed Stingray

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Price
$1500
Location
NYC
Zipcode
11565
Schwinn even used the day of the month remember 1976 was a leap year. As you can tell I don’t know jack about schwinns but starting
The date on the head badge is the day the bike was put in a box. The serial dates do not tell you when the frame or bike was built. It's just a dated serial number. Here's the Schwinn reporter showing the making and serial stamping of the head tubes. Jamie is doing the final step, the serial stamping and the drilling for the head badge screws.

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I was thinking that the first two letters in the serial number was the month and year? The number on the badge is to verify that? I’ve seen those numbers before and didn’t think twice about them thanks
If the number on the badge is 2446 it would decode to the 244th day of 1976.
 
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