Long Story of the RUNAWAY bike

[60sStuff]

Lynn,

Happy Thanksgiving !

Great story, neat interview at MCACN and awesome Huffy Dragster II.
Looks like a very nice Original Paint Survivor and that rear cheater slick tire is worth big money on its own.
This bike found the Perfect home with you.
Display it and share it.

I have been collecting the early Schwinn Stingrays for decades and have a thread here on this site (7-31-24) that you chimed in on.

Here are a few things of interest for you and your new toy.
Please be very cautious with the white screen on the chainguard and fork as it will wipe right of with any cleaners or wax.
A couple examples (not mine) of this Huffy.

BTW, one hell of a stache !

Thanks for sharing, Chris

[Lynn]

The stache will come off after the evening of Dec 14. We are dressing up in our 1890s outfits for the Victorian walk the first two Saturdays in Dec.

I haven't found any info on pricing for the Dragster II three speed. Am I in the ball park at $55?

[Too Many Projects]

$55 seems about what I recall them being advertised at.
That walk looks like fun !
This your museum and better half ?

[Pro Stock John]

I saw you walking around MCACN, you were the only with that mustache.

[Lynn]

That is our Museum. Not Sherri.

[396 SS/RS]

Originally Posted by Lynn

Don't get me wrong; my Dad did have some character, and did the best he could with the limited parenting skills he had. Sometimes we need to judge people not just on who they are but where they came from. HIS dad was a drunkard, wife beater & child beater. My Dad never finished high school; but it wasn't because he was a slacker. His dad wasn't putting food on the table, so Dad went to work as the oldest of four kids. Then he joined the Army and fought in the Pacific theater. He was only 20 years old when he drove an amphibious tractor all night with nothing but a hand held compass as part of the Los Banos prisoner of war rescue. (see below) He never drank. He never laid a hand on my Mom, and he never beat his kids. The events that he was unable to deal with which resulted in his mistreatment of me are probably too graphic and personal to share on an internet site. So yeah, Dad had his faults, but given where he came from, he did the best he could.

My post on Los Banos rescue: https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthread.php?t=144405

Just for the record it was not my intention to put your dad in the SOB class. I had a few friends who's dads were pure SOB's. One in particular would pop him in the jaw for a simple facial expression he didn't like. I felt sorry for him.

[Lynn]

All good. No offence was taken.

[Lynn]

Originally Posted by Too Many Projects

$55 seems about what I recall them being advertised at.
That walk looks like fun !
This your museum and better half ?

I got that letter press going a few years ago. We still use it.

Here is another photo that we ran across on the net today, posted by a company that sells Victorian clothing. I can tell that the pic was taken in Dec. 2022 from the stage of restoration. In the back ground are some of the 624 drawers on that wall that hold all of the pre printed forms printed in that building. We have some forms that were printed before 1910.