My first Schwinn Cycle Truck

[RailRider]

I finally got the wheel hoops painted and re-spoked tonight. The original tires were very hard but I re-used them also. ☺

 

[Kreep]

Looks fantastic.Definatly jelous.
-Kreep-

 

[RailRider]

I still need to recover the seat but i did take it for a ride today anyway! ☺

 

[outskirtscustoms]

Holy cow wow man, looks great!

 

[RailRider]

I am considering selling this if I can get the money put together in the next couple days but not really want to ship it! ☺

 

[RailRider]

Somebody mentioned parting this out because they said the basket just sold for $800 on ebay. I would hate to, but if I do I will post this in the For Sale section.

 

[clerkkent]

Sorry to threadjack, but is that the Western Flyer version of the Murray Firekat family in the background?

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[Jaxon]

I will answer for Ron...lol Yes it is a Western Flyer RamRod. It is in the same family as the Firecat & KingKat. The differences being the forks & seats, sissybars.

 

[clerkkent]

Thanks Jaxon.
I've been looking for the Coast-to-Coast Hardware stores version of this bike, as I knew Murray made versions of the 'Kats for smaller hardware store chains, but haven't had any luck.

 

[CycleTruck]

That's a really nice Cycle Truck, man. Nice job on cleaning her up!

 

[axsepul]

nice bike but i would check the serial number again. i think its older than 51
these show up on the catalog pages on 1946

http://www.trfindley.com/flschwinn_1941 ... 46_17.html

and they dont show up again until 1955 as you can see the frame is diferent
http://www.trfindley.com/flschwinn_1951 ... 55_18.html

now they did build the cycle truck on 1951
http://www.trfindley.com/flschwinn_1951 ... mdls1.html

but what makes me think its older is the skiptooth

on 1951 there are some serial numbers that start with A but they are A plus 5 digits. it looks like yours (A3824**) fit on NOV. 19, 1951 which are from A37988 TO A40206 but you will have to check the number on the frame again since it should have a CT also.

it looks like that on the day they built them it was the only thing they built on 1951 for example

2/23/51 H166581CT TO H166853CT
3/2/51 H166854CT TO H167354CT
7/24/51 H272629CT TO H273272CT

those 3 days where the only days they built cycle trucks on 1951 according to my book, but i could be wrong if the book is wrong!