O.K. I'm finally done with my Huffy Super Stock V, I know it's no where near of a challenge that Crash had with his entry especially considering what he started with so I will tip my hat to him up front, he had a much higher degree of difficulty than I did. But here is my entry . . .
The Story:
So I bought this bike from a guy in California at a great price about a year and a half ago with the intention of restoring it but other projects kept getting put ahead of it. The seller told me he got it for his 12th birthday and only rode it one summer before he decided he was too old for a bike like this so his dad put it in his garage attic where he found it some 45 years later lying flat between blankets. I had a heck of a time figuring out how to get that red/white tape off the bike let alone the painted parts he put it on, the decals were some kind of a thick commercial grade reflective tape you would find on construction equipment, it took me about two weeks to get it all removed.
After I broke the bike down to prep it for paint I kept looking at how unmolested it appeared, just a couple chips and scratches but the paint was kind of dull. I just couldn’t bring myself to strip it down to bare metal and repaint it so I went to my buddy that paints show cars and asked him what I could do to bring the paint back. You can’t really bring it back to its original but I could come close he said, the best way would be to use a rubbing compound he recommended, said it would remove the dirt out of the paint but would also remove paint so I had to take my time and be careful. You can see the the cloth I used on the bike, I took several days working it trying not to overdo it. That’s the reason I didn’t want to show the paint job, I wanted to be satisfied with how it looked plus if in case I wore paint off and ruined it and then would have to end up repainting it.
So finally here it is reassembled all original as it came to me after I broke it down, cleaned, polished, rebuilt some parts, but obviously had to replace the rotted tires, seat, brake pads, and added the 48” sissy bar and pad. I couldn't get the other sissy bar chromed in time so I went with this frame bolt on 48". I went out and rode it today and got some good comments on it, I hope everyone enjoys it as much as I do.
