Classic & Vintage - Schwinn Continental year of manufacture?

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vintagerider
09-06-04, 09:18 AM
Looking for help finding year of manufacture for an early 60s Schwinn Continental, have Serial.

John E
09-06-04, 02:01 PM
Check oldroads.com. The original Chicago Schwinn S/N system used an initial letter to denote the month (A=Jan,H=Aug,J=Sep,M=Dec), followed by a digit which was the last digit of the year of manufacture. Starting in 1965, they went to system with two initial letters, with AA = Jan 1965.
carpediem
09-06-04, 06:37 PM
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/allday101/SchwinnCodes3.html