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That was my thoughts too.
Not sure on the muscle bike either but looks like a good candidate for the Muscle bike build off.
My wife & I both worked at the Celina Huffy plant for over 20 years until it closed.So I'm sure it's not a Huffy.I cleaned the paint off of a small spot on the bottom of the crank housing,the metal looks different than what we used.To me it looks pretty complete except for the paint so I'm not tearing it apart until I figure out what it is.I'm thinking about doing the bike in some sort of muscle theme to go along with the 64'. As far as the car goes,I just returned from a 525 mile trip to The Woodward Dream Cruise.
I think its an AMF built bike.
It just hit me my 70ish amf had that chainring
Looks like it's somewhere along the lines of an AMF Roadmaster Renegade
I'm sure there are others it could be but a quick amf muscle bike search popped up a bike that looked the same from what I can tell.
I'd suggest trying to carefully take paint off the chain guard in hopes of finding decal remnants or even color variances in of paint to find a model name.
It just hit me my 70ish amf had that chainring
Looks like it's somewhere along the lines of an AMF Roadmaster Renegade
I'm sure there are others it could be but a quick amf muscle bike search popped up a bike that looked the same from what I can tell.
I'd suggest trying to carefully take paint off the chain guard in hopes of finding decal remnants or even color variances in of paint to find a model name.
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Been searching for a while to answer your question, @whitefiretiger put me on the right path, AMF possibly a roadmaster renegade, check here: http://ratrodbikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/60s-roadmaster-renegade-grrrrrrrreat.65871/
Luke.
what?
A eugoogalizer. One who speaks at funerals. Or did you think I'd be too stupid to know what a eugoogly was?
Probably one of the best parts of that movie and with the growth of google I can play off it more & more all the time lol.
Anyway back to your muscle bike...
Hope you can figure out exactly what you have.
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Well AMF serial numbers are basicly worthless but a few people have concluded that there was a pattern to the letter before the number on the muscle bikes but even that gets fuffy after 72-73 area. The conclusion I've seen drawn is that yours is later than 73 most likely.
Is that factory orange paint poking out?
Is that factory orange paint poking out?
From what I'm finding most Renegades were orange.
There's the possibility it was a store brand badged bike built by AMF as well but so far I'm this king its a Renegade.
I've had some strange luck in the past cleaning chain guards and finding bits of decals or in one case when I was stripping one down there was light rust everplace except where the decal was.
There's the possibility it was a store brand badged bike built by AMF as well but so far I'm this king its a Renegade.
I've had some strange luck in the past cleaning chain guards and finding bits of decals or in one case when I was stripping one down there was light rust everplace except where the decal was.
Depends on the paint I'm trying to remove.
House paint I use oven cleaner.
Sometimes I just lightly sand.
And when I'm lazy as in the case of the rust showing me what decal used to be there I had just hit it with rattle can paint stripper and rinsed it off and found it lol.
On the tank of my 59 western flyer I was sanding it with 160 grit because the repaint won't come off with stripper (scary) and I found part of the decal.
House paint I use oven cleaner.
Sometimes I just lightly sand.
And when I'm lazy as in the case of the rust showing me what decal used to be there I had just hit it with rattle can paint stripper and rinsed it off and found it lol.
On the tank of my 59 western flyer I was sanding it with 160 grit because the repaint won't come off with stripper (scary) and I found part of the decal.
