1956 Schwinn American survivor find

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I picked up what I believe to be a 1956 Schwinn American today. It’s in rough shape for sure and it looks like it was painted gold over the original red using a dead chicken as a brush lol. The price was right and it had so much random stuff bolted to it that I couldn’t resist.
 

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Cool bike! Welcome to the forum. You can probably remove that gold paint down to the original if there's any still on there, if that's what you are into. 👍
 
Pondo said:
Cool bike! Welcome to the forum. You can probably remove that gold paint down to the original if there's any still on there, if that's what you are into. 👍
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Any tips on removing the over paint?

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That is a great bike!
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Thanks! It’s like a poor man’s pee wee bike. In one of the pics you can see they used half of a door hinge as a plate to screw the rear rack too lol
 
I haven’t done it myself but guys use 0000 steel wool, WD40 and lots of elbow grease. I’m sure there are other methods that work too. Maybe others will chime in.
 

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