Help with model and year rollfast

[slothagese]

Should be off to one side. If you find 36-13 on o e side, you find a letter and number on the other. Without any stampings, no idea.

E2

 

[cds2323]

E2

E2 would be the second quarter of 1935. Looks like it's likely a 35 after all.

 

[rollfaster]

And that all makes sense. 1935 Rollfast diamond frame motobike balloon tire.

 

[flagspryte1]

Can I jump in here? Picked up this beauty from someone's trash! It was missing the seat, but everything else seems original. I put an old seat on it and a bottle rack (before I started searching for what it was) I found the serial numbers, but have no clue where to go from here... D461874 and the S inside a C?

 

[Archie Sturmer]

Looks ~1970's to whenever they, D.P. Harris Hardware, stores closed.
You might look into how to create a new post, just for your special bike.

 

[hoofhearted]

@slothagese ... your Rollfast is very refreshing to behold.

Built at the dawn of streamlining, yet having that raw look
often seen in a much earlier era. Raingutter fenders and
one-inch main frame tubes. And aside from the near-
magical condition of the integrity of the metal .. and the
paint -- she sports a crank void of any doglegs, and painted
balloon-rims of the era.

Your purchase was indeed, a good call.

Please think long and hard before you polish that badge
to a solar brilliance -- right now it looks to be right at home
where it has been for the past eighty-plus years.

..... patric

 

[slothagese]

@slothagese ... your Rollfast is very refreshing to behold.

Built at the dawn of streamlining, yet having that raw look
often seen in a much earlier era. Raingutter fenders and
one-inch main frame tubes. And aside from the near-
magical condition of the integrity of the metal .. and the
paint -- she sports a crank void of any doglegs, and painted
balloon-rims of the era.

Your purchase was indeed, a good call.

Please think long and hard before you polish that badge
to a solar brilliance -- right now it looks to be right at home
where it has been for the past eighty-plus years.

..... patric

I definitely have sellers remorse on this one...

 

[Adamtinkerer]

Can I jump in here? Picked up this beauty from someone's trash! It was missing the seat, but everything else seems original. I put an old seat on it and a bottle rack (before I started searching for what it was) I found the serial numbers, but have no clue where to go from here... D461874 and the S inside a C?

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BMA/6 certification decal began in 1971, and Rollfast's manufacturer, Snyder, went out of business around 1975.

 

[flagspryte1]

Sweet! Thanks for the info. I had a feeling that BMA sticker would help, but my searches on it didn't give me that
I figured it's a 1970's Sears buy...