Art Link <artlink(AT)columnssanantonio.com> wrote:
> According to Tam Pham's list of serial numbers-this bike claimed to be
> #432- should be chrome pated and have slant cut seat stays in stead of
> ball ends and a red paint job.Chainset claimed to be original and could
> be like the ones on Wastyn's pre-production models,but head lugs(oval
> style in frontal aspect) are early production type. Red flag!! Seller has
> no ebay record(although we all have to start sometime )
The seller is clueless. He had this bike on craigslist and the Schwinn Forum and has listed the serial number as 435 and A435, though a photo of it does truly show it as 432 (the same as the other "confused" seller in Michigan awhile back trying to pass the other 432 off as a '39 racer, when it was actually a '50s tourist -- and asking $25K for it).
http://home.mchsi.com/
The red bike does have slanted chainstay caps -- he just didn't understand the question and responded that the chainstays were round. Funny ...
Not sure why the duplicate serial numbers. Perhaps Wastyn vs. in-house Schwinn builds and resequencing of the numbers at some point (?).
BTW, the Schwinn Clubmans I referred to earlier -- well, apparently that whole thing may have been a scam, so I apologise for wasting anyones time (or money!) if you got involved with that. I had no affiliation other than I was overly excited that some possibly rare bikes had been unearthed.
Bob Hufford
Springfield, MO