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Cruisin' on my Bluebird
Wow! I hadn't heard that one before. I'm betting there were some people steaming mad when they got their bikes back!I know every body has jumped on the reproduction bandwagon but I would like to point a few things out. The girls for one has the non-side reflector luggage rack that was on the 1950-52's. It also has a truss rod front fork. Neither were available on the reproductions. There were only a couple of prototype girs bikes made, non went into production.
The headlights on both are not the ones offered on the reproductions.
I'm not saying that they are not reproductions because there is plenty of parts like the seats and cheap goosenecks that were on them. They remind me more of the bikes Columbia "borrowed" then returned to the owners repainted along with the reproductions. They did this to one of my fathers bikes. When he got it back all the original chrome parts were missing and replaced with the parts used on the reproductions including the entire wheels. I know they did this to quite a few bikes as I had seen them at the factory when they were taking them apart.