For about a year now, I have been searching for a Schwinn Superior, but have had a difficult time finding one at a price that I felt comfortable paying or one that was my size. For a few months, there had been a Superior listed locally on craigslist at a fairly high price, but I figured I'd call the seller and shoot them an offer. The seller turned out to be a very nice younger teenage kid and was willing to take my offer, which was substantially lower than the asking price.
The bike was not completely original and there were a few issues with it. At some point, the Campagnolo seat post was swapped for an SR post. The front wheel was also replaced with a cheap generic wheel. The seller told me the wheel was lost, but later found by his brother, and they threw it away since they had already put a new wheel on the bike. After bringing the bike home, tearing it down, and further inspecting it, I noticed a few more issues. The left side pedal was broken, there is a small ding in the top tube, an adjustment screw on the rear derailleur is broken, and there is a slight crack in the bolt-on cable guide. I don't think the ding will affect anything structurally, and I had already planned on swapping the components with a Super Record group I had laying around anyways. The only negative with the damaged original components would be that it would affect selling them to recoup expenses on the build.
The serial on the rear drop out is 20616 and the serial on the head badge is 2422, so the bike was built towards the end of 1982. The color is the gun metal gray, which is seen in the 1983 add; but, unlike the add, my frame has Nervex lugs. The fork appears to be original, but is Tange, not Reynolds 531, like the rest of the frame. It also does not have Campagnolo drop-outs like the rear.
Here are a few pictures of how the bike looked when I brought it home. I will post more pictures as the build progresses.