Originally Posted by
kaki63
I just picked up a sweet Kool Lemon yellow Schwinn Continental at an estate sale. It's in excellent condition and just needs some cleaning and detailing. My question is the serial number -- I want to identify the year of the bike. When I entered the serial number on the Schwinn serial number lookup , it came back as invalid. So, the serial number which appears under to theft of the name place is
J 006609.
Any help deciphering this would be greatly appreciated.
I suspect you're missing a character. There should be two letters at the beginning of the serial number - "JJ" would be September of 1973 while :"JK" would be September of 1974. Yellow Continentals were in the 1972- 1974 catalogs:
Schwinn catalogs, 1971 - 1980 (59 of 579)
Schwinn catalogs, 1971 - 1980 (113 of 579)
Schwinn catalogs, 1971 - 1980 (172 of 579)
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