Okay folks... Here's my good fortune from last weekends adventures, (2) two Murray Mercury bicycles.
Saturday I picked up my Ebay purchase. I'm certain I drove to far and certain I paid toooo much... but, what the heck. Saturday's purchase was a complete bike, with the owner picking it up in 1968, used, for $3 (I gave a little more, inflation ya know). The owner wasn't a spring chicken either, an interesting old fart.
The coolest part of the trip was the owner's home, an old downtown row house. It was well maintained with 12'+ ceilings, ornate wood work, marble this, stone that, etc. Made it worth the effort.
Sunday, I got up and had breakfast with a friend at the neighborhood diner. From there we headed over to Peddlers bike shop for a bike swap meet. The swap was billed as a "BMX" swap [as I later found out] and the weather was really, well, crappy. So, the turn out was less than I had hoped for... My good fortune was that there was one guy selling non-BMX stuff and lo-n-behold he had the twin [in pieces, minus the handle bars] to the bike I picked up the day before! What's a guy to do!?....... I bought it, what else? LOL. It's become an illness.
Both bike are missing the head lamps. One is a skip tooth. The chain gaurds are the same but different. One has a goofy tank, not sure that's original to the bike...? Etc. I need to date them from grins.
Clark
A little bit of tweaking and it now is a bike that can be ridden... I'm from the Kansas City area so the Western Auto tires are a hoot!
... "parts" bike laid out
Head badge...
Saturday I picked up my Ebay purchase. I'm certain I drove to far and certain I paid toooo much... but, what the heck. Saturday's purchase was a complete bike, with the owner picking it up in 1968, used, for $3 (I gave a little more, inflation ya know). The owner wasn't a spring chicken either, an interesting old fart.
The coolest part of the trip was the owner's home, an old downtown row house. It was well maintained with 12'+ ceilings, ornate wood work, marble this, stone that, etc. Made it worth the effort.Sunday, I got up and had breakfast with a friend at the neighborhood diner. From there we headed over to Peddlers bike shop for a bike swap meet. The swap was billed as a "BMX" swap [as I later found out] and the weather was really, well, crappy. So, the turn out was less than I had hoped for... My good fortune was that there was one guy selling non-BMX stuff and lo-n-behold he had the twin [in pieces, minus the handle bars] to the bike I picked up the day before! What's a guy to do!?....... I bought it, what else? LOL. It's become an illness.
Both bike are missing the head lamps. One is a skip tooth. The chain gaurds are the same but different. One has a goofy tank, not sure that's original to the bike...? Etc. I need to date them from grins.
Clark
A little bit of tweaking and it now is a bike that can be ridden... I'm from the Kansas City area so the Western Auto tires are a hoot!
... "parts" bike laid out
Head badge...
