Old Family Bike Pic
11-10-09, 09:42 AM
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Old Family Bike Pic
I was just visiting my parents in the Chicago area, and brought back some old family photographs to digitize. One of them, a 3-D shot done in '52 with a Stereo Realist camera, shows my mom (5 years before making me) on a cruiser with a couple of my cousins. I thought y'all might enjoy it almost as much as I do, so here it is. Anybody know what kind of bike it was?
11-10-09, 10:25 AM
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Your cousin's foot is in just the wrong place...
Purely a guess - Schwinn Typhoon.
(scratch that - the tube locations are wrong)
Purely a guess - Schwinn Typhoon.
(scratch that - the tube locations are wrong)
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11-10-09, 11:02 AM
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I'm not expert, but it certainly does look a lot like my Schwinn Spitfire.
This picture is of a 20" one, but looks incredibly similar:
https://www.nostalgic.net/pictures/2195.htm
This picture is of a 20" one, but looks incredibly similar:
https://www.nostalgic.net/pictures/2195.htm
11-10-09, 11:08 AM
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the more I look around it looks even more so like this one because the white paint on the fenders is the the same:
https://www.strandcruisers.com/schwin...by_schwinn.htm
https://www.strandcruisers.com/schwin...by_schwinn.htm
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Thanks guys! I think the Standard might be it, looking at the paint scheme and chainguard. The date the pic was taken is just my guess. Might have been as late as '54. The white paint details on the top and down tubes are long like the Spitfire, but the front fender is like the Standard. Tip of saddle looks like the one on the Standard too.
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