Withdrawn The old Schwinn is back! What I had been told was a pre-war bike it now appears that it is an early post-war to 1950 bike.

[MMorris923]

I’ve held onto this frame group since 1978, I always wanted to do a restoration, life was always in the way. Now it is time to try and find someone else for that project. I received the complete bike badly rusted, the wheels were shot, I saved the hubs, frame, fork and parts pictured in the group shot. There were no fenders or chain-guard. I had the crank, sprocket and head tube bearing cups in a box that unfortunately was lost in a one of our moves.​

The frame has damaged right rear-drop-out, it will hold an axle but not safe for riding. There is a threaded rod in the group picture to protect the frame during shipping that is bolted into the drop-out. I have a replacement drop out from a restoration shop in the early 1980s.​

All the parts came from the same bike, I have no reason to doubt they were all original. The frame does the chain-guard tabs. There are no visible serial numbers on the bottom bracket or the left rear drop-out. I've tried looking inside the bottom bracket but I don't see anything; due to the vintage it is not on the head-tube. The fork is somewhat unique in that the right blade has an axle whole and the left a slot. I'm told the paint scheme is close to an early post-war to very early 1950 scheme. The drop-out direction and the electro-forged frame with a visible "seam" ridge on the bottom bracket also move the bike to post-war instead of my original understanding of pre-war. Both hubs are stamp "Germany"

 

[LarzBahrs]

Where exactly did you get this price point from? You can get complete tank bikes for what you are asking for this damaged frameset.

 

[MMorris923]

I'm basing the $650 OBO on a breakdown of the frame, fork, hubs, badge and misc parts. I'm open to parting it out individually, but would prefer to sell as a group. Thanks for asking though.