Re: Packard Bikes

Posted by Leeedy On 2021/3/20 8:58:22
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Ozstatman wrote:
Know it's and they are not

LOL. Understood. Yes, I saw that. It brings a chuckle. You can tell how young the guys running Hemmings are now because they don't seem to remember that Hemmings Motor News has had a bicycle and motorcycle ad section for decades. The young guys doing this post think they've discovered something new!

Krates are actually the relative newcomers in collectible vintage American bicycles. The seriously collectable (and valuable) stuff is from the 1930s–1950s as I always said it would be. Only nobody paid attention until this stuff started popping up on TV in pawn shops and with "picker" guys, buying low and selling high. THEN it was suddenly noteworthy!

I bought from Hemmings bicycle ads and ran ads in the section back in the 1960s and 1970s. I also did likewise with Krause's "Old Cars" newspaper back in the early 1970s (the paper came out once a month in the early days). And I took my classic American-made bicycles to automotive swap meets back as far as the 1960s.

I wrote the industry article, "How Two Wheels Led To Four" that was published in 1993. Car people never knew it... now they quote from it... some apparently not knowing the original source. THIS is where references to the Grabowski Bicycle Factory (predecessor to GM's GMC Truck & Bus division) came from. You'll see these references all over the internet and elsewhere today, without attribution. Grrr. It is what it is.

Also curious as to how little kids from the 1970s riding Schwinn Krate bicycles qualify as typical "baby boomers."

If you scroll back a few posts in the Packard Bikes thread here, you'll note I pointed out just a smidge of bicycle-automotive history that is still overlooked today by automotive historians.

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