Originally Posted by
kellyjdrummer
When Schwinn closed their museum at the Chicago plant, it seems I remember they auctioned a '68 model for something like $65,000.
It was $16,100 and that was the One Millionth Schwinn (first time they had hit that number in a single year's production). There is some talk that that was not the real bike, that the museum curator "sold" it prior to auction and it's floating around Chicago somewhere ...
This bike was bought by the Crown Forklift Corp. of Ohio and it is now in the Bicycle Museum of America with many of the other pieces from that auction.
http://www.bicyclemuseum.com/
Look it up alphabetically under "Orange Krate"
There is now a Sting-Ray possibly worth more than that ...
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-lo...,6873169.story
Bob