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I'll add that this model had catalog # 46201 from '65 through s/s '67, and kept the 202 number through '68, then a completely different # for '69, without any changes to the bike. Typical for Sears! -Adam

The white bike may have the country it was made in on the head badge, or a decal on the seat tube. If it's Austrian, it was likely made by Steyr/Daimler/Puch. If it's German, it could still be SDP, or it could be one of the smaller companies like Bauer, who exported a fair number of bikes. I...

Snyder serial #s are believed to return to letter A in '69, ending a ten year run. I see an R, but it's at the end, it's the first digit is the year. They went out of business around the end of '75, the last of their orders were filled by AMF and Westfield/Columbia. I'd say this bike is near the...

Simmons Hardware bikes were often made by Colson, but pics will tell the whole story! -Adam

They did, earlier drops were pretty narrow, later they made a wider one, used up to around '50, on cheaper models. Fancy ones got forward drops, built in stand, & modern 1/2" pitch chain postwar. -Adam

Looks like 3 1/2" blocks, that's ladies pedals, worth a good bit less than the longer ones. I'd search completed ebay listings to get a feel for values. -Adam

Usually, TN built Murrays from the late '70s-mid 80s have a black sticker at the bottom of the seat tube, with the build date on it. -Adam

You'd likely get more $ if you got the correct res S seat for it, and at least a more vintage looking kickstand, imho. -Adam

I believe I read somewhere that the Continentals always had forward dropouts. -Adam

And those are leftover Shelby guards as well.

I'd take it off some sweet jumps!

A brass wire wheel is the ticket! -Adam

My family moved to the NJ suburbs in Jan. '77, and that spring, I was cruising the 'hood, on my 20" Columbia. Some kid said I should take the fenders off, it'd make it look cool. So I did! Thus began a like of tinkering! In the summer of '80, I saw a rusty black Schwinn at a garage sale. Much...

I believe the curved fender braces are prewar, so pre - '45 anyway. CWC serials start with a letter, and followed by a suffix after the war (Cw, ACw, year + Cw). The chart is hard to read, but maybe you can zoom in. -Adam

Around '48, they started attaching an ID tag to the BB, smaller than Monark's. It would read "No. 48", and then the serial #, with the following years after the 'No.'. AMF bought out CWC and Shelby around '51. They used up all the old stock, which is why you see later '50s AMF's with Shelby...

I do know there are "I" serials in '67, and they went back to A in either '69 or '70, some debate after that. The sources I've read say Snyder shut down in '76, and AMF & Westfield/Columbia made Rollfasts long enough to fill existing orders. I've seen both. -Adam

Westfield/Columbia only made this frame for a short time. It's unknown if the ballooner Newsboy frame is any different than the middleweight Firebolt. Your chain ring is a replacement, and pretty sure the seat is too. W'field serials, for comparison. 1960 H5000 - H259120 1961 K5000 -...

A brass brush is better for the rims, steel will scratch! ~Adam

In the early '50s, English lightweights became the hip thing for older kids, ballooner sales tanked! American bike companies created middleweights, while stores started importing bikes. European companies countered with their own "lightmiddleweights" like the first pic. Sears sold these too. ~Adam

Note: The middle number is part of the Sears catalog #. '46901' was the number of the '64 Deluxe chrome frame, 46903 was the painted frame version, 46902 shows in the '66 catalog as the deluxe. There was always a '0' or '1' at the end, reasons unknown. Sears went from a 4 digit to a 5 digit # in...