Schwinn American Beauty Restoration.

We restored this Schwinn American Beauty for a man that won this bike doing a paper route many years ago. I wish that I had taken a before picture but I failed to do so. The chrome on this bike when it came in was really bad. It had broken lights,broken reflectors,and rusted spokes. Its paint was faded. After assessing the bikes condition we decided to re-chrome all of the chrome pieces. We try and preserve the original paint on a lot of our classic Schwinns, Original paint helps to hold the dollar value of the bicycle. This particular bike had savable paint. We did some touch ups and then sprayed a clear coat over the original paint. This helped to bring out the original color. All of the broken lights and reflectors were replaced with NOS parts.