Lightweight Schwinn Ads

[GTs58]

Schwinn ads and catalog pictures are many times not accurate. They are a copy that was done months even years before it was used. Dec 63 art work was probably done the summer before and maybe just a picture they had on file. None of it would have been done on a computer but would actually have been hand painted. It was done to sell bikes not for future collectors to use as a reference. Roger

Yah, the ads sometimes are not accurate but is issue with the different frames is just a bit too much. Someone was sleeping on the job and probably approved the ad without even looking at it. Same way Obama Care was dumped on the American public. Nobody read it. Hurry and approve it so we can head out for happy hour.

 

[rhenning]

The catalog errors were not just way back when. This is an listing of lightwweight Schwinns from the 1980s. The first bike listed is an Avion.http://www.trfindley.com/flschwinn_1981_1990/1988_16.html Anyone ever seen one?? Schwinn did sell that bike but the name was changed after the catalogs were produced. Roger

 

[GTs58]

1954 ad. Note the color options.

Fall 1958 comic ad. Note the front carrier is the new 1959 style Mayweg.