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Wartime Schwinn New World Bikes - We Know You Have Them - Tell Us About Them!!

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That white 40 woman's New World is a beauty! Fantastic pin stripes and chrome. Even on the Miller stand. Good to see that these bikes are coming out.
I have a question. I am looking for a front fender for a prewar New World. I thought an early Racer fender would work. Same fin. Looking at all these photos it seems that the New World front fender is much longer at the rear end. Am I seeing things? Mine rotted off at the brace. Maybe they held water more by wrapping around the tire so Schwinn shortened them. What do you think?
Anyone with a straight rusty patina front fender?? Help!
 
Is that an E or an F on Genuine's NW? Looks like it could be an E where the bottom was hit a little lighter, but I'm cross eyed. ;)

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Digging through some posts today and came across some threads with prewar New World racers to add to the list. @sb1 has a new thread going on his racer that pointed me to these..

@Champy posted a racer back in 2013 here. Serial D2629 3 piece crank, red with white wheels, war time tires, New Departure hub
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@Nigelshaffer posted this racer back in 2013 as well.
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@sb1 's Liberty badged Racer. This bike is very cool with OG rims, racing pedals, rear fork ends, black pin stripes....
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@Big Moe had this one back in 2017. It's a tourist frame and fork dressed up like a racer. There's nothing wrong with that, just pointing it out. :)
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@ccdc.1 Pointed out the way to tell the Racer frames from the Tourist frames. The racer frames' chain stay braces are a lot closer to the bottom bracket. Since there wasn't going to be a mudguard that attached, they could place them closer to the BB. Also the racing fork is steeper with less rake.

Real Racer frames with close brace
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Not real racer frame with far brace
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We've been looking at these weird hand stamped 1940 bikes a lot. @GTs58 and I have been talking about why there could be a couple of different serial numbering operations on the same line of bikes. In 1940 we have seen both machine stamped New Worlds like this:
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and hand stamped New Worlds like this (especially weird VERY far right 0 and small D:(
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The realization we came to recently is that it looks like all the hand stamped frames we've seen with the letter then 4 digits, have the smaller bottom bracket (BB) that works with the 3 piece crank. The BB on the machine stamped frames is larger and works with the 1 piece dog leg cranks. There had to be two different lines working on these bikes. The hand stamped bikes are always much better equipped bikes with 3 speed hubs etc. or Racers. I can imagine the guys building these bikes were taking more time than the guys on the line building the more mass produced tourist bikes.

This also helps to explain how @vincev 's bike could have gotten such an odd I serial stamp in 1940. What was that hand stamp guy drinking the night before? If you're doing it by hand, a lot more "variation" can creep in. :)
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@s1b 's hand stamped serial is nuts too with the C covered with a sideways 0:
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What do you guys think?
 
We've been looking at these weird hand stamped 1940 bikes a lot. @GTs58 and I have been talking about why there could be a couple of different serial numbering operations on the same line of bikes. In 1940 we have seen both machine stamped New Worlds like this:
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and hand stamped New Worlds like this (especially weird VERY far right 0 and small D:(
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The realization we came to recently is that it looks like all the hand stamped frames we've seen with the letter then 4 digits, have the smaller bottom bracket (BB) that works with the 3 piece crank. The BB on the machine stamped frames is larger and works with the 1 piece dog leg cranks. There had to be two different lines working on these bikes. The hand stamped bikes are always much better equipped bikes with 3 speed hubs etc. or Racers. I can imagine the guys building these bikes were taking more time than the guys on the line building the more mass produced tourist bikes.

This also helps to explain how @vincev 's bike could have gotten such an odd I serial stamp in 1940. What was that hand stamp guy drinking the night before? If you're doing it by hand, a lot more "variation" can creep in. :)
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@s1b 's hand stamped serial is nuts too with the C covered with a sideways 0:
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What do you guys think?
That isn’t my white Racer. It was one I was looking at buying. Not sure if it sold.
 
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@s1b calling it yours was wishful thinking on my part. :D You are the “contributor” of that bike to this thread even if you don’t own it. it’s a very cool bike.
 
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