(MBBO Class 1) MiniMuscle

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Picked up this little brute for my grandson. I build a 12" Schwinn Lil Tiger for my older grandson and was pretty happy with how it turned out. This one is an early 70s 12" Western Flyer. Since I am doing the build anyway, I might as well enter it into MBBO 2014. It is going to be a pretty basic build, so nothing too crazy. I also have two '66 Huffy 20" muscle bikes in pieces scattered around the garage, so if this goes well, I might enter another.

Cool thing about these 12" muscle bikes is that they can sit right on the workbench.

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Stripped it all down. Not sure on the paint. Leaning towards a metalflake purple, but we'll see.

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My favorite part of the bike is this awesome curved sissy bar. Need to find a good and inexpensive plater to get it rechromed.

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Welcome to the fun I am glad to see someone doing a small bike like this good luck can't wait go see this when it's done
 
Thanks guys...My local chrome guy isn't too bad on prices, so we'll see. A friend who owns Links-n-Kinks bike shop does some amazing powder coating, so that might be an option. If I go that direction, I'll do something like flat charcoal bike with all the chrome in a gloss black?
 
nice bike will love to see it come together!

Troy
 
Too cute...This is going to be a lil firecracker.:113:
I said in the build off this year,we should have a mini comp...Wheel size has to be under 20"...Maybe after the winter build.Just for fun...:43:
 
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