I don't know -I was wondering if something like that was the case. I'm not 100% sure of the date of this bike. It looks SOOOOOOOO clean and sparkly it just doesn't look like a 1970-ish bike. The maker was Juncker Bicycle Works which eventually became or was bought out by the company that builds Gazelles now. The paint and lugwork are about 2 orders of magnitude better than the 70's Raleighs and even the 50s & 60's. It was ridden very little before whatever happened to it. With the original seat I can see why the lady who owned it didn't want to ride it. It has to be the single-most uncomfortable seat I have ever encountered in 40 years of riding bicycles. It's just a squared-off metal stamped block with sharp corners at the edge and just vinyl over it.

The rest of the bike is really nice except for the fender stays that were run to the axles instead of the dropout eyes. I didn't know anyone did this before the K-mart bikes.

The hub is a Styria-made Sears-branded AW. It's dated at 64. It's amazing if the bike is actually this old. The rear wheel was rebuilt BADLY and the rear rim does not match the front. The rim was OK, but the guy who rebuilt it put all sorts of different length spokes in there and just left them. Runout was fine but hop was amazingly bad. I think it got hit and messed up around the same time it stopped being ridden. It spent the next few decades inside a dry garage above the rafters. It was in pretty good shape other than the tweaked frame and goofy back wheel. Even the rubber looked almost new with little dry-rot. The tubes were amazing super-thick monsters with threaded stems. The Dutch know how to build a heavy-duty bike.