Hello! So I'm new here but I've always loved rat rods ever since a kid. So this is my bike, I picked it up from an old hippie in Berkley CA. Its a 1962 Schwinn Fleet, and its in pretty good shape!
It has little rust and I had plans to make it a rat rod bike, but now I'm having second thoughts. I was gunna blast it all and paint it flat black with hand drawn pin stripes, red rims, whitewalls...etc. but I might just leave it be because its in pretty good shape. I did do the typical mods: remove basket, drop the seat and flip the handle bars. However, the tires do need replacing, and I ordered blackwalls but whitewalls came. Which is ok because I was thinking about leaving everything but putting red rims on it with whitewalls. White rims with whitewalls would be too much white... :? So what do you think? Would it offend anyone if I powder-coated the rims red and put whitewalls on it? or just leave it? Any suggestions appreciated!
Here she is the day I picked her up.
Basket removed, seat dropped:
Bars flipped:
Here she is the day I picked her up.
![P1000850.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/e93/e93f5330e424b0d8afb3079bdf976c4f.jpg)
Basket removed, seat dropped:
![P1000851.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/b04/b0479b7ffefee427ba03cb376afc8479.jpg)
Bars flipped:
![P1000856.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/1f0/1f024b32e4104df1bfb4f39adb939a61.jpg)
![P1000858.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/28d/28da047c9fbf12c7a63b1b6d9b600e17.jpg)