Seat/saddle for 1956 Schwinn Corvette

[KevinBrick]

Looking for a correct seat for

a 1956 corvette.. Any information or models or manufacturers would be helpful also..

 

[ace]

Two piece seat from early midweight bikes.

 

[Pantmaker]

Is your bike a 55 or a 56? I might not be remembering this correctly, but I think the strange brownish seat shown in your picture was 55 only and the one above was used in 56. The 55 seat in your picture is one of the hardest Schwinn seats to find.

 

[KevinBrick]

My bike is a 1956.. I got the picture from the 1956 Schwinn Catalog , but I know that isn’t always accurate.. When I do a search there doesn’t seem to be any consistency.. A lot of the early Corvettes like mine have the Schwinn S seat on them that came out in 1959.. I thought the two color seat above came out in 1957.. At least in the Schwinn catalogs..

 

[A.S.BOLTNUT]

What color seat do you seek ?

 

[KevinBrick]

My bike is black.. it looks like many of the original seats on these bikes are brown.. here are some before and after pictures.. does anyone have an original 1956?

 

[Pantmaker]

Let's summon the obscure Schwinn seat Yoda @GTs58 to weigh in on this.

 

[GTs58]

Let's summon the obscure Schwinn seat Yoda @GTs58 to weigh in on this.

LMAO!

First off, the 1956 Catalog image of the Corvette is a repeat of the 1955 model image. It depicts the 1955 only seat and the long tong 55 only Mayweg rack. Can't tell if that 56 image shows the much needed 1955 cable clip on the chain guard though. The seat in post #2 is the correct seat for a 56-57 model. Best of luck finding a decent one of those, they weren't all that durable. The 58 models were the first to use the better Mesinger and that's what I would use to replace a 56-57 seat if an original can't be found.

1958 Mesinger

 

[KevinBrick]

LMAO!

First off, the 1956 Catalog image of the Corvette is a repeat of the 1955 model image. It depicts the 1955 only seat and the long tong 55 only Mayweg rack. Can't tell if that 56 image shows the much needed 1955 cable clip on the chain guard though. The seat in post #2 is the correct seat for a 56-57 model. Best of luck finding a decent one of those, they weren't all that durable. The 58 models were the first to use the better Mesinger and that's what I would use to replace a 56-57 seat if an original can't be found.

1958 Mesinger

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I have a red one if someone wants to trade for a black one**

 

[KevinBrick]

I found this really nice Troxel seat (NOS)..