[CR]Re: Gas pipe bikes (John Wilson)

(Example: Framebuilders:Richard Moon)

From: <bhufford3@mchsi.com>
To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Re: Gas pipe bikes (John Wilson)
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:39:00 +0000

John Wilson <wilsonjw50@aol.com> wrote:
> For CHICAGO SCHWINN`S only, numbers are located on the lower left
> of the head tube (By The Schwinn head badge). The first letter is
> the month, the second letter is the year.

The 1962-1963 Superiors and 1964-1969 Super Sports had the serial numbers located on the left rear axle hanger and consisted of a single letter code for the month [again, skip "I" and "O"], the last digit of the year and a 3-digit sequential build number -- e.g. 'K6018' is the 18th frame built in October of 1966). The 1970 Super Sports with Huret dropouts seemed to have used a two digit year ('C70204' -- March, 1970, 204th frame). From then on they followed the scheme above.

Bob Hufford
Springfield, MO