![]() It isn't that anyone particularly is concerned with the changes so much except those that go nuts about the '62 Corvette 5 speeds, and those kids' Stingray & Krate models of 1963 to about 1974. The sixties and seventies probably are easier to determine many of the color changes and mechanical changes, and pedals, seat, and handlebar, etc and offered accessory changes. It gets really nearly impossible to know exactly in how things changed year to year on such things, especially when for example you are looking at really ancient early post war, late 1940's year models and such. It is probably the best first resource when you are trying to learn what Schwinn was doing in any particular era or a few consecutive years that any bike you might be interested in was produced.Īs with all year model catalogs, as with Automobile year catalogs of the past, NOT EVERYTHING IS EXACT, BECAUSE OF THE LAG-TIME BETWEEN PHOTOGRAPHING, EDITING, PRINTING THE CATALOG & BROCHURES versus When The NEW YEAR's MODELS ACTUALLY COME OFF THE PRODUCTION LINES AND HIT THE SALES SHOWROOMS, so you might have pictures there that might have something that might have changed, colors offered are More or perhaps some particular colors were deleted or replaced with another totally different color in the line-up. There you can simply wander and scroll through and see how the models and names and colors offered changed/differed through the years. Google something like 1961 Schwinn Catalog, -or- Google something like 1971 Schwinn Catalog.AND YOU SHOULD HAVE LINKS FROM THE waterford SITE WHICH APPEAR.waterford HOSTS ALL OF THE SCHWINN CATALOGS GOING BACK ABOUT 80 YEARS. You CAN google exactly how to read Schwinn serial numbers through the decades by just googling Schwinn serial numbers, determining what year.age. YOU CAN google exactly how to decipher this code of the very tiny numbers stamped within the oval Schwinn badge.badges before 1976 will not have a stamped code! I think this began in 1976 but I just don't remember when, might have been '75 but I think it was 1976. I think that some time during the 1976 model year that SCHWINN began stamping a production date code into the white oval Schwinn badge. This is why I segregated the mid-sixties to 1970 from the 1971 onward in the column above, that reasoning and to more highlight that Schwinn skipped the letters "eye' and "oh". Many 1970 SCHWINN bicycles will have the "two-letter" serial number on the right side of the headtube, below the badge & just above the front fork. I may be mistaken but I think you may come across some 1970 Schwinns that have the "two letter" serial number on the rear dropout as was done from mid sixties thru 1969. ******Schwinn DID NOT USE the LETTERS "oh" AND "eye" BECAUSE THE LOOK TOO MUCH LIKE "one" AND "zero".************* the FIRST LETTER tells you the MONTH.(B) = February.The SECOND LETTER tells you the YEAR.(G)=1971 SCHWINN BEGAN EMPLOYING THE "two-letter" SERIAL NUMBER SYSTEM DURING THE MID-SIXTIES.Įssentially what you have is "two-letters" followed by numbers. Prior to 1970, going back some years to at least the early sixties, the serial number was near the rear dropout. directly above the front fork, at some time during 1970. For you to this one justice, I'd take the bike apart, but that's alot of work and honestly to resell it, just pump up the tires and list it as-is with it's history, dirt, and patina.SCHWINN began placing the serial number on the HEADTUBE beneath the oval headbadge, on the right side of the head. I take the guard off the bike and then detail the paint and chrome. Just be careful around the factory decal on the seat tube and I'd stay away from the face of the chainguard, don't even get it wet as sometime that old screening will wipe right off. If you've detailed the motorcycles, you should be good here. ![]() I also collect and restore Honda Minitrails, Z50/CT70s and the serial numbers matter there on the frames and motors I restored Olds 442s for years, so totally get the serial number interest, had some very rare low production W-30 and Hurst Olds cars in the past. Apple followed Orange sometime in 68, yours being May is right about mid release. I believe the very first ones came out in November. I own a very early original Orange Krate with MC serial number, December 67. Click to expand.The early Stingrays, 63-65, the serial number will tell you the day of the month and year it was made.
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