My folks wouldn't waste the money - after all, they'd already bought me a Schwinn Mark IV Jaguar back in 1958 and it was still in good running condition. So I grabbed a regular Schwinn 20" frame and wheels, got the paint guy at dad's dealership to paint it '65 Chevrolet dark blue (almost black), and built my own Stingray.
My first bike build. That's where it started. Five years later I was earning money in the field.
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Syke
“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
H.L. Mencken, (1926)