Yeah these old bikes are cool alright! I'm having some problems though and some things about this bike are really confusing.
I got an email from a restorer who told me the Fireston 500 was a bicycle produced in the 60's. However, my bicycle doesn't match ANY of the body styles produced by Firestone in the 60's that I have seen. Mine has a huge tank that runs the length of the bar, and everything else including color, and design matches those found in the 1940's and 50's.
I did some research and the model Firestone 500II came up. I wonder if I have a first generation Firestone 500 that wasnt' very common.
I'd like to keep and restore the bicycle, but can't get any information on this model.
Has anyone here on this forum owned a Firestone Bicycle as a child? There were numerous models. Does the Firestone 500 ring a bell.
A thought just occured to me. On the chain guard it has Firestone 500 with two graphics of "checkard indy flags", which are what I would assume a reference to the indy 500.
Squeak
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