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Found this tiny little gem at a scrap yard. Pretty darn solid. The hard rubber wheels measure about 8 - 10 inches (I didn't have a tape measure handy). But I haven't seen such an adorable little bike in a long time. I don't think it's very old, but the frame makes me wonder. I have a niece...

Seat pans delivered to upholstery shop. Waiting to see if having bearing cups, neck, crank and sprocket is better re-chromed or to buy new. Frame, forks, fenders and guard blasted and bare:

I took a donor banana seat out of my pile 'o parts to replace the really ragged and rusted completely through Schwinn seat that was on the bike. I'm taking it up to NC to have it reupholstered. It will match the original pattern (below), but instead of the red and blue being printed on white...

Okay. I'll check that out. Thank you!

Thank you Luke! :) Here are the stampings. Onbviously made by AMF, but I couldn't find any info with the serial number. I figure because I'm a noob at this. Any ideas or thoughts?

Well, after a failed attempt at refreshing an old bike thanks to unforeseen damage, I've waiting until I waded deep into this bike before posting it. If you don't succeed, blow it up and grab another. :rolleyes: I lucked up and got an original AMF Spirit of '76 bike in fair condition from a...

The serial number looks to be D3147237. Anyone??

Snagged this bike at our show this past weekend and I'm going to try to bring it back to life. Working on getting a pattern for the original graphics. The guy I got it from is also a pinstriper/artist and he's going to repaint the graphics for me! But I want to find any pertinent info - ads...

:D It's too awesome, Turtle!!!

Hokay. Finally reappearing. I gotta watch your build, Turtle!! :D

Yeah. My intro page turned into heaven knows what. :D Nice to meet ya!

Purple Nurple ground to a halt due to a previous owner fusing the crank together. It's likely to simply go back together and stay original. Except maybe rust removal, new seat and whatnot. No move on the Free Spirit. Gonna make a set of zombie bars for it with the tube bender here at work...

:D Thank you! Tires and motors tend to be our addiction. Happy New Years!

Gotcha. I'm new to this, so information like that really helps. Since the tires are replacements,then no harm no foul in replacing them with some whitewall fat tires. The fenders are wide and high enough to accomodate them.

My horn works!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :mrgreen:

June of 1960? There must be conflicting serial number databases. I pulled one up and it had October of 52. I thought that seemed too early. Fiddle with is all I'm gonna do. If they don't work, oh well. Most of my other bikes have dynamo setups on them, but I think I'm just going to add a few...

In the meantime, the serial number is F053052 and here's a pic of the badge on the tires. Aftermarket? And what I have as far as the headlight. Any recommendations for restoring the light??

Welp. Here's what I found when I opened the tank... :cry: I bypassed the baking soda and stuck it in the sand blaster then srayed a little rattle can over the poorly executed previous owner's JB weld repair. I'll be pickig up batteries tomorrow to see if it actually works.

Ah! Now I know! Thank you! Hubby has a 1950 J.C. Higgins Colorflow he's about to get started on. He's putting white fat tires on it. Trying to convince him to let me start him a build thread. :mrgreen:

I did a Google search and saw an equal number of wire racks and 9 hole style solid rear racks. Not sure why the difference. It might not be a 58, but I'll get the serial number and we'll see. Middleweight? There's another thing to help me on. Maybe since it's a 24 inch you aren't going to see...