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Some of it is! It's based around an early 50s CWC. The tank, seat, and skirts at least have been lent from other bikes. Chainguard was chopped to accommodate. I've seen those lattice style skirts before but I don't recognize the tank.

That's a Huffman built bike circa 1950ish and it is not a middleweight but full blooded ballooner.

Nice! That's a '62 only frame, too.

Determining a model will be tough since so many bikes used the same frame. Painted fenders narrow it though. Probably mid-60s. It looks like somebody took the bars stem and fork from a 70s Murray motocross bike.

I'm with Chips; they look mint which helps, but nothing particularly special, just true Schwinn riders. I think 250$ is a reasonable expectation on the pair depending on the crowd that rolls through. Hang the owners manuals on the handlebars! People love that.

It's true; there is very little information on the Evans company out there. I live in Plymouth Michigan where the factory was (and is now something else) so I set out to be a source of information on the brand. They only existed for a period from 1954, when they bought Colson, until their demise...

Like Raf says, the springer is assembled wrong; hence the spacer to make the spring fit the gap. Also, you missed a number when you recorded the serial--it looks like E936434 making it a 1959 frame. The springer is pre-'56 Schwinn so it's officially 100% assembled from parts but who can complain...

Yeah, it ends up being the same idea as a rounded wood handle. Just takes a little less maneuvering and coordination. Harbor freight has them http://www.harborfreight.com/2-inch-teardrop-mallet-66205.html Works great for fenders, since they've generally got a radius (your Evans may be the only...

That was my only reservation on the ID. But I think it can be explained because an Oriole would not have enough space for an engine. The curvature of the bar is correct, it's just riding up towards the back. I'm thinking it got moved up in back. The chainring, frame joints, and fork all suggest...

The thread style is usually a bear to remove because it's had 70 years worth of pedaling tightening it down. If you go to take it apart, the lock retainer is reverse threaded, then the cog itself is standard thread.

Have you used a teardrop hammer? They're super. Non-marring plastic too.

Alright, so I was unsatisfied with my answer as I still had not found a reference image of a prewar small frame. Dug more and found one. It appears that the short frame has the same geometry as the standard frame, but the seat tube is merely cut down, with a seat binder in the seat stays like a...

Interesting; it's definitely Murray built and appears to be during the ballooner/middleweight crossover period. Looks like '56-58. Could have been badged JC Higgins, Western Flyer, or several other things. Cool project start!

No--Bendix used a retainer ring to hold the cog on and New Departure was a threaded type. ND did make 1/2" hubs so you can just hunt one of those cogs down to guarantee a fit. It's possible that other thread type cogs will work though since I think the pitch was pretty universal for american...

Schwinn records before 1948 were lost in a fire. Your frame is definitely prewar based on the things I mentioned. 1941 used an H serial with 5 digits under the bottom bracket. It looks like your frame, forks, fenders, and truss rods are original. It likely would have originally had a skiptooth...

It's your lucky day--your bike isn't a '53. I'm going to guess your serial is under the bottom bracket and reads Hxxxxx? I'd place it as a 1941 short frame. You won't find many examples of a short frame for reference. Unless it's a 24" bike. What is the wheel size? It's hard to distinguish much...

JC Higgins Flightliner circa 1959 to early 60s.

That helps. I'm still leaning on an Oriole; everything screams it except the orientation of the middle bar--it's riding up. I'm thinking it got moved to accommodate the motor, because the shape of the present middle bar looks right. Looking at the stock frame, you can tell it definitely wouldn't...

Personally, if you're going to buy a real deal vintage whizzer kit, I would pick up a bike from the period. Most prewar or early postwar bikes will be very solid with no concerns. They'd be more structurally suited than those late 60s Western Flyers which are middleweight bikes anyway. I made a...

It's looking like your grandfather got the bike used and then bought a new Whizzer kit to put on the bike. These motors existed before the war, but very few were sold. They really flourished 1945 and later. The bike in question does indeed appear to be a Westfield built Elgin bike (versus Murray...