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Glenn Rhein

Cruisin' on my Bluebird
late 40s ?, some cool things are the 5 inch wide rear fender, BF Goodrich badge and unsigned glass reflector.
Nice splayed bars with coke bottle grips (missing reflectors)
Not so cool , missing front fender, chainguard and overpainted.
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I'm no Schwinn guy, but I'd say that's way postwar. Maybe even 50's. Try looking up the serial.
 
The bottom bracket on the first bike has the electroforged seam, so it's post war, but according to the Schwinn Serial Number Reference, serial numbers starting with "E" followed by 5 digits only went up to "E67000" (Sept. 25, 1948). After that they went to E067001 and went on from there. The EXXXXXX numbers only went up to "E262103" (Dec. 1948) so my best guess is "E89712" would be Oct. 8, 1948, shown as covering "E089141 - E095828". That's assuming they left out the first zero, but I could be wrong.
The second looks like it may have a seam, or it may just be a scratch in the paint, so...
 
First one is most likely 1946 unless letters weren't kept in sequence, based on the 1946, 1947 models i have
 
First one is most likely 1946 unless letters weren't kept in sequence, based on the 1946, 1947 models i have

If all the recorded late 48 serial numbers being stamped with an E how could it be earlier?
 
If all the recorded late 48 serial numbers being stamped with an E how could it be earlier?

I am guessing numbers were not kept in sequence or they repeated after the fire. I am just going by the models I owned.
 
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