I’ve been wanting to pick up a new project that was both older and had some new challenges. All of my vintage bikes are from the late 60’s to 1981, so I was thinking 50’s or 60’s. I missed out on 2 bikes I wanted in the last 10 days. Then…. This 1950 Hetchins frame came up on my local Craigslist.

The chrome varies from great to pretty bad. The paint is mostly nonexistent. So I’ll need to decide how to refinish (or a serious amount of patina). The first big challenge will be to get a Chater Lea headclip.