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Special order 1980 lime green cruisers

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Schwinn called it Emerald Green in 1980.

Was Emerald actually Lime green or was it a new color altogether? I've never seen an Emerald 80's bike in person but the color looks off for Lime in all the pictures.
 
I'll have to take some pics of my 64, 65 & 80 together but I think they are pretty close, you know how bikes fade in different ways?, as fair as serial #'s, that's 3 HR's and 1 ER!
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Was Emerald actually Lime green or was it a new color altogether? I've never seen an Emerald 80's bike in person but the color looks off for Lime in all the pictures.
Schwinn re-introduced Lime Green on the Sportabout and Runabout in mid-1978 (confirmed in the 2nd ed. Consumer catalog that year). I believe they renamed that color to Emerald Green in '79 and used it on other models such as the Varsity. Catalog pictures are notoriously bad on color, however the '79 and '80 green Varsities that I've seen look exactly like Lime Green to me. Here are some examples of an "Emerald Green" 1979 Varsity:

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Thanks Metacortex. I know there was a slight change in shade between the early Flamboyant Lime and the later reintroduced 74 Lime Green and always thought that Emerald was a new color. The name sure doesn't describe the color either. The Flamboyant Lime was lighter than the later Lime colors.


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Agree on the early Flamboyant Lime being just a bit lighter.
I think it was the same paint, but the later Lime got an extra coat or two to deepen it a bit.
 
I just picked one up at Pomona Swap meet over the weekend in Original Green. Looks like its going to be a keeper (until I find a better condition green). View attachment 721591View attachment 721592

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I just bought this bike from a guy in Huntington Beach. Almost 5 years from the day you found it. Going to clean it up and add some bmx parts as I find them. I really dig the patina. Here it is next to another project...a late 50’s Corvette? (Correct me if I’m wrong) In opal green I believe, I could be wrong. Plan is for both to be bmx cruisers. birdzgarage and his bikes have me inspired

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I just bought this bike from a guy in Huntington Beach. Almost 5 years from the day you found it. Going to clean it up and add some bmx parts as I find them. I really dig the patina. Here it is next to another project...a late 50’s Corvette? (Correct me if I’m wrong) In opal green I believe, I could be wrong. Plan is for both to be bmx cruisers. birdzgarage and his bikes have me inspired

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The color for the early 80's Cruiser was called Emerald Green in the Dealer Catalog

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Everybody but Schwinn knows that Cruiser color is a Lime Green. Opal Green is correct for the 50’s Corvette. There were two different kinds of opal colors but they never changed the names. The later opals were a candy paint and in 1959 they change the name to radiant. That was the same color as the later opals
 
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