Vintage Bike Serial Number Lookup
BY THE YEAR, MONTH AND DAY
- Vintage Bike Serial Number Lookup By State
- Vintage Bike Serial Number Lookup Numbers
- Vintage Bicycle Serial Number Lookup
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Sep 25, 2018 Search titles only. You must find the serial number. The first digit in the number is the last digit in the year it was built. Second, you must look for other features or characteristics that would determine it's decade. Your bike's number starts with '7'. This would mean that the year is 19-7. Now, the characteristics and features. Michael's Vintage Bicycles Buy, Sell, Restorations & Rentals. Now I can research the serial number for the Huffman Mfg Co. Schwinn Serial Numbers and Date Codes by Day: Dates between 1948 and 1958 are available because Schwinn kept good records. From 1958 on, several different coding systems were used, from which the manufacture date (and often the assembly date) can be decifered.
THIS CHART APPLIES TO CHICAGO SCHWINN`S ONLY.
SCROLL DOWN FOR THE DATE CODES LINKS
BY FRAME LOCATION OF THE SERIAL NUMBER
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IF YOU HAVE A BIKE OLDER THAN 1948,
OR YOUR LETTER AND NUMBER DO NOT APPEAR IN THE LISTS,
PLEASE SEND ME THE NUMBER AND YEAR (if you know it)
AND A PICTURE IF YOU HAVE ONE.
THIS INFO WILL BE USED TO ATTEMPT TO REBUILD
THE PRE-1948 SERIAL NUMBERS LIST.
USE THIS LINK FOR IDENTIFYING PRE-WAR CHARACTERISTICS BY YEAR'
ID FACTS
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On bikes older than 1948 you need to use reference to other, known year bikes,
or pull out the crank to look for a date stamp on it. Doing both is a good idea.
All serial number records before 8/18/1948 were lost in a factory fire.
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IF THE SERIAL NUMBERS ARE FOUND UNDER BOTTOM BRACKET
(On The Bottom Of The Frame, Under The Pedal Crank Housing)
USE THIS LINK
1948 Through 1952
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IF THE SERIAL NUMBERS ARE FOUND ON THE LEFT REAR DROPOUT
(By The Left Rear Axle Mount)
USE THIS LINK.
1952 THROUGH 1969
Vintage Bike Serial Number Lookup By State
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IF THE NUMBERS ARE FOUND ON THE LOWER LEFT OF THE HEADTUBE
(By The Schwinn Badge On The Front OF The Frame)
USE THIS LINK
1970 THROUGH 1982
Vintage Bike Serial Number Lookup Numbers
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1945 TO 1965 PRODUCTION STATISTICS:
YEAR ------------- UNITS MADE ------ % OF MARKET
1945 ------------------ 98,189 ------------------ 18.0 %
1946 ------------------ 302,071 ----------------- 18.1 %
1947 ------------------ 486,793 ----------------- 17.4 %
1948 ------------------ 602,408 ----------------- 22.3 %
1949 ------------------ 352,302 ---------------- 24.03 %
1950 ------------------ 510,019 ----------------- 25.5 %
1951 ------------------ 466,849 ----------------- 22.4 %
1952 ------------------ 478,383 ----------------- 22.2 %
1953 ------------------ 501,379 ----------------- 18.6 %
1954 ------------------ 355,790 ----------------- 14.3 %
1955 ------------------ 413,355 ----------------- 13.7 %
1956 ------------------ 454,933 ----------------- 15.6 %
1957 ------------------ 439,482 ----------------- 16.7 %
1958 ------------------ 451,158 ----------------- 15.4 %
1959 ------------------ 546,238 ----------------- 15.3 %
1960 ------------------ 514,724 ----------------- 13.7 %
1961 ------------------ 471,506 ----------------- 12.9 %
1962 ------------------ 528,721 ----------------- 12.5 %
1963 ------------------ 655,693 ----------------- 14.9 %
1964 ------------------ 849,818 ----------------- 16.7 %
1965 ------------------ 876,608 ----------------- 15.5 %
Vintage Bicycle Serial Number Lookup
TOTAL SCHWINN BICYCLES MADE, FROM 1945-1965 ------ 10,356,870.
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