Firestone girl & huffy boy muscle

[whitefiretiger]

So I just acquired 2 kids bikes and know jack about them.

Any info would be great.

First is this girls Firestone bike.

Its missing its head badge & been repainted but where the repaint is popping off the chain guard you can see Firestone and the shield with F in it.
Haven't been able to locate a serial # on this yet.
It has a PERRY B-100 england rear coaster hub.
The seat post is a wedge style (like a stem) and it has high peak fenders.

Trying to figure out manufactured it & year (value too if possible).

Next up is this Huffy built muscle bike.

From the serial # I'm guessing its 1981 but I can't find any info on this bike.

It has this on the head tube

And a nice BMA/6 sticker on the seat tube.

Has a BENDIX 70 mexico coaster hub.

Any info on this would be great as searching for Sunfire got me no place.

 

[whitefiretiger]

Still no clue on the Firestone but I did find a couple 1974-76 huffy ads that the bikes look almost identical to this one; the Red Hot even had the same seat.

 

[Nagant]

The muscle bike was made for and sold by the Coast to Coast hardware stores. That Marquis head badge sticker in my avatar is from a 1980's Huffy manufactured Coast to Coast 3 speed light weight. I'm not sure but I thought it had been said on here that those BMA stickers are typically 70's.

 

[whitefiretiger]

Thanks.

I did find something about the BMA stickers starting around 72 or 73 then died off someplace in the early 80s but didn't see a solid year range.

The reason I guessed 81 for year (which seems way off) is the serial on the head tube starts off HC781.
I know nobody has a straight answer on these numbers but the more huffy built bikes I look at its starting to seem as if maybe that first # is the last digit of the year (in this case 1977 maybe).

 

[Rustinkerer]

The 'stone is AMF built, late 50s=early 60s. BMA/6 went from 1971-79. -Adam

 

[whitefiretiger]

The 'stone is AMF built, late 50s=early 60s. BMA/6 went from 1971-79. -Adam

Cool thanks.

I'm guessing the Firestone was older as it should have had a rivited on head badge (rivits are still there).

Been digging with the info you gave and finding its most likely 58-61.
Thanks again.

This little beast is going up for sale.

The Sunfire will probably go up for sale after I do a little more cleaning on it.