Project Bikes

Project Bikes

These bikes are either waiting restoration, future sale, or in progress. Interesting and rusty they are. All could make for a coll rat bike project or a powder coat resto-mod, however, I will try to find and show a similar restored bike for reference.

Belknap Bluegrass

Late 40s early 50s

Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company, also known as Belknap Hardware Company or simply Belknap Hardware, located in Louisville, Kentucky, was at one time a leading American manufacturer of hardware goods and a major wholesale competitor of retail sales companies Sears, Roebuck, and Company and Montgomery Ward. Belknap excelled both in catalog sales and widespread distribution of its own name-brand manufactured products.

The company became one of the nation's largest wholesale enterprises with nationally known quality brands, among which Blue Grass was the most readily recognizable. John Primble knives, developed by an employee of the company, became a Belknap brand with its own division, made in Louisville between 1947 and 1985 by the John Primble Belknap Hardware Co. The Crusader manufacturing brand of Belknap included contractors' shovels, hammers, hatchets, axes, drawing knives, carpenters' pincers, planes, screw drivers, hand drills, wrecking bars, bit braces, auger bits, chisels, pliers, wrenches, tin snips, and tin ceilings. Other popular Belknap manufactured products included rifles, guns, padlocks, lawn mowers, and bicycles. Belknap inventory in the vast warehouse spaces grew larger and larger, and the Belknap neon sign could be seen from miles away.

Huffy Camaro

1968

An identical original/restored Huffy Camaro

Columbia

1960s

Columbia Firebolt

early 1960s

This is a desirable frame with a welded in rear rack assembly. 

Below is an example of a custom 1962 Columbia Firebolt frame fitted with a TRM tank conversion. Built as a commuter bike that turns head where ever it is.

Shelby

Schwinn

1950s early 60s spray bombed w/ truss rods 

Schwinn Tandem

Old Skip Tooth Girl

I am dying to get this one in an oxalic bath to reduce the rust. It has nice lines,  stars, and patriotic themes miked with that light blue/turquoise in original paint. Truss rods on the fork gothic fenders, art deco chain guard and classic lines.

More to follow