When I first read about these, I had to have one, so I bought the green one for $79. Then just before Xmas, I saw that my Wallys had them down to $35... and I had a vision. One frame in 3 colors with 3 different personalities, representing the different stages the Stingray went through in history. So here we have them: the green one representing an early '60s Super DeLuxe, the blue one representing a late '60s fenderless, and the black one representing a '70s BMX conversion...
They're not done, none of them. They all have issues I want to address. First and foremost, I realize that the cheap Huffy fork on the blue bike is probably a felony in some parts of the country. Hey, it's all I had laying around. As soon as I find an appropriate Schwinn fork, I'll try to paint it to match. The green bike needs grips and a front fender (working on that), and the black bike needs the fork painted to match and maybe some proper black tires. At this point, I'll just keep swapping parts as I find them... sissybars, black BMX tires, rattraps, wide V bars, like that... I'd like to move the bars that are on the green bike over to the blue one, and get some wide V ones for the green one...
My wife thinks I'm a nutball. Bah, what does she know... :mrgreen:
--rick
They're not done, none of them. They all have issues I want to address. First and foremost, I realize that the cheap Huffy fork on the blue bike is probably a felony in some parts of the country. Hey, it's all I had laying around. As soon as I find an appropriate Schwinn fork, I'll try to paint it to match. The green bike needs grips and a front fender (working on that), and the black bike needs the fork painted to match and maybe some proper black tires. At this point, I'll just keep swapping parts as I find them... sissybars, black BMX tires, rattraps, wide V bars, like that... I'd like to move the bars that are on the green bike over to the blue one, and get some wide V ones for the green one...
My wife thinks I'm a nutball. Bah, what does she know... :mrgreen:
--rick
