First of all many thanks to those contributing to this subject thread identifying my frame as a 1076/78 Superior. I was looking at the wrong years and didn't realize Schwinn made a fillet brazed model in the late 70's. My guess is that they wanted to keep employing the fillet brazing workers. For those that love fillet brazed Schwinns, this is the queen of the liter. It doesn't have the kickstand braze-on but it does have an English threaded bottom bracket so normal cranks can be used. No Ashtabula crank conversions are necessary. As a framebuilder myself, I'm really impressed with the quality of the fillets - they are big and nicely shaped!

My neighbor (that is also the treasurer of our church) doesn't know if he still has the parts. If he does they are located in his shed in the back of his property. He isn't wanting to wade though the snow (SW Michigan gets a lot of "lake effect" snow - we have a lot right now) and cold to see if the parts are still there. I'm certainly hoping they are! He is giving me the frame to do with as I please. I told him I would sell it and use the proceeds to help support our Ukraine Bicycle Project. This is a project we started 22 years ago to provide bicycles to Ukrainian pastors. it is a poor country and having a bike for transportation can make a real difference in their lives. In the last few years the majority of these bicycles have gone to the war zone in the eastern front where Russian forces have already done an enormous amount of damage. They started invading into Ukraine in 2014. We make the frames and assemble them into bicycles on a college campus near Kyiv. I got to see the refugees from the east as they flooded campus for food and clothing. My translator begged me for money for treats for the kids. It is very sobering to see the effects of this war.

I was looking at descriptions of the Superior in Schwinn catalogs to see what colors they were painted. I did see that at one time flamboyant red was an option. The frame came to me with most of the paint already stripped. I think it might have been silver originally. Flam (another word is "candy") red is a much more dramatic color than silver - especially as a built up bicycle. It is also much more difficult and time consuming to paint. So I suppose it will make a good class project demonstration. There is no chance the students will be able to do it. Fortunately I have the yellow Super Sports which will work perfectly for them to paint.

Yes I will use House of Kolor paint. I've learned over the years how to tint the glitter undercoat and mix 2 colors of red to get the best effect. For those that don't know, a candy paint is a transparent paint that allows the glitter undercoat to shine through. It takes a lot more time in the booth to get all the coats of paint on required to get the right effect. It also looks much more dramatic in the sun than with indoor lighting. It is very challenging to get this transparent paint to be evenly applied so it doesn't have light and dark shades. The problem is that where frame tubes come together making it highly likely to get more paint around the joints.

No I don't have a decal set yet. SSSink is one of my suppliers for decals and I will see if they have them. Otherwise I'll have to go looking. And yes I will be happy to post pictures when it is finished. It is always difficult and challenging for me to take decent pictures of newly painted frames.