My wife's grandfather passed away before Christmas, and her grandmother doesn't want to live in the house anymore. The Sprint belonged to my father in law, and the Stingray was his younger brother's. Believe it or not, but these have been in a garage for about 30 years. My father in law gave me both bikes. According to him, the Sprint had drop bars, but when his lil bro outgrew the 20", he took over the Sprint and installed the buckhorns. It's a 74 or 75 from what I've read, because it has the curved seat tube. Unfortunatley, lil bro (who's about 50) asked for the Stingray back,says he wants to restore it. So I will have had it only for a week. I was asked if I would restore it, and decided not to. I told him restoring was a subjective term. What do you mean by restore? If you want it to look like new, all Schwinn parts, stripped, painted and new decals, expect to spend about a grand on a bike that I don't think is worth it. I told him it's worth about $40-50 as is. To make it a decent rider would still be at least $200 for parts (wheels, tires, bars, banana seat, sissy bar, chain guard), and that's new aftermarket stuff. I'm still gonna cross my fingers I'll get it back some day.
