Penguin bicycle from 1970

[Freqman1]

One more clue. I did find a picture of my brother's similar bike and his had the top bar installed so Hemi426 is correct, it was a convertible bike.

Can we see that pic too? It may be another piece of the puzzle. I don't believe this bike and the Huffy Penguin have anything in common.

 

[juvela]

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newspaper -

checked Reno major daily the Gazette-Journal

been publishing since 1870

was able to bring up a pdf file of the issue for a particular date in 1970

when began to read a paygate glided in

to explore this avenue you will need to find a third party archive without a paygate...


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[CL Scott]

Colors aren't correct, it was deep red but you can see the boy style bar attached.
Thank you!

 

[CL Scott]

Looks like Sears sold junior bicycles...

 

[juvela]

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thank you for the additional photo, this should help readers

the cycle's chainset appears it may be Thun pattern, which would suggest a european origin

if this is correct the two most likely national origins for the machines are DE and NL


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[CL Scott]

And Weinstock's

 

[CL Scott]

And the last one I could find is from Penney's

 

[GTs58]

If the bike was a Sears it would have a Sears head badge. Most likely the same for Pennys, Formost. Looking at your brother's bike there is some writing on the oval in the head badge. Can't read it but it could be Formost? or Penguin? Due to the Penguin head badge and the early Huffy model name Penguin, this might have been a huffy imported piece for maybe Grants, Kmart etc. where the bikes were not rebadged with a store name.

 

[CL Scott]

Okay, I found another picture and put it side by side from the Weinstock's ad. I also looked at the badge writing, it says Penguin in vertical letters in the inside and there may be some small writing in the bottom right that I can't read. Everyone has had such good ideas, especially the old newspapers. I would have never thought about that one.

 

[Freqman1]

Like Juvela said this looks to be of European manufacture so I would start looking at German and Dutch companies as suggested.