Show your fastbacks!

justinarias · #1 07-23-2009, 11:48 AM

Show your fastbacks! I would love to see everyone's collection. I dont have mine yet, and its killing me! it hasn't showed up. but i will post before and after pictures when im cleaning it! my first stik shift bike!

its a 70 lemon 5 speed and as far as i know its all original. :]

Justin

67RamsHorn · #2 07-24-2009, 07:07 AM

What are fastbacks?
Did Schwinn make them?

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

ramjet70 · #3 07-26-2009, 10:49 AM

picked up this 1976 yesterday.

67RamsHorn · #4 07-26-2009, 05:26 PM

Sweeeet!! You just don't see very many red 76 fastbacks.
Nice find.
Dan

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Originally Posted by ramjet70

picked up this 1976 yesterday.

Darren Brown · #5 07-26-2009, 08:35 PM

Here are mine:The Coppertone 68 may be the nicest riding bike I own, the green 68 I got from a friend as you see it.The orange 71 I will post more pix of as soon as it is complete..the blue 66 I recently acquired as it is,and am in the process of collecting parts for now. Has very nice original paint.Dan is correct,nice red Fastbacks are very hard to find.

67RamsHorn · #6 07-27-2009, 11:08 AM

Sweet fastbacks Darren.
Here are some more:
67 black fastback
69 red fastback 3 speed
69 fastback line up
Thanks,
Dan

67RamsHorn · #7 07-27-2009, 11:11 AM

Sorry, here's my 67 Black fastback.
Dan

SchwinnFeverrr · #8 07-27-2009, 12:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 67RamsHorn

What are fastbacks?
Did Schwinn make them?

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

Mmmm...sorry Dan, is it normal for a full-grown man to drool when looking over your collection???

stingraykurt · #9 07-27-2009, 02:06 PM

thats a good looking 76 fastback,not to many of those around any more

oh ya always a pleasure to look at your collection Dan

kurt

Dopey · #10 07-28-2009, 07:54 AM

Here is my third FastBack. I sold my first one, an FR '75 5-speed to J.D., and he keeps trying to sell it back to me! Also picked up a '71 KO single at a thrift sale, but sold it at a garage sale.
I got this, as a basket case, in trade for a handful of old school BMX nic-nacs. No wheels, no saddle, and lots of rust. And plenty of hacked-off paint on the frame (lock and chain, anyone?).
So, black is easy to repair, w/ judicious masking and feathering, and the missing letters were handpainted. Thankfully the chainguard lettering and the crossed flags decal were in good shape. The only sticker I replaced was the Stik-Shift donut. I repainted the knob by hand.
So I made it up as a bike which was modified a bit when it was a few years old. 1969 NOS w/w General tires, '64-ish script calipers, chrome-plated seatpost clamp, and on-hand handlebar tape. I had rims and hub, though the hubs are not dated correctly. But I did find a Sprint freewheel in my stuff, as well as several donor derailleurs to make one nice one.
Schwinnly,
Dopey