I found this bike in August of 2009 at the local refuse transfer station (the dump) in the metal pile, recognized it as a skip tooth Schwinn and brought it home. I did some asking here at the forum (I was a newbie then) and got some advise from Norm at Venice Bikes and from Bairdco who was also pretty new to the forum. I wanted to know what model it was and when it was made. Being a skip tooth I thought that made it pre WWII and the graphics looked like a picture I saw in a Schwinn book depicting a DX.I'm entering this bike in the build off. It is a 1950 Schwinn straight bar. Needs a little work.
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Norm looked it up and from the serial number was able to determine it had been made on October 14, 1950. He said it was not a DX, but a straight bar frame shared by Panther, Hornet and a few otherearly models and was highly desirable. Bairdco found a picture of a Hornet and it shared the same color and graphics, so that is what it was sold as. By then I had stripped it down and painted it black and was calling it a Panther. Sounded cool. By just about this time a year ago the bike looked as it does in the photos below. I had rebuilt and upholstered the seat and had purchased new Wald fenders. It already looked a lot different from when I found it and I knew even then I wanted to do something special with it.
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