The money you could make trading down to parts with poorer original paint could go toward offsetting the cost of the restoration. If you want to do a repaint you could easily trade the original paint portions of the bike for some identical pieces that are sound but have bad paint and build a freshly painted bike around that assemblage. They appear to be in primer so doing a ”distresstoration” on those parts will not hurt either them or the original portion of the bike. The basic bike you have has quite nice original paint and some of the parts you have collected are not strictly correct for that bike. The tires on this bike were completely rotted out, but the tubes were still holding pressure. My thoughts about a repaint go like this. Februzaneponsetti 0 Comments 1939, 1940, 1941, Project Bike, Ward Hawthorne Picked up this Pre-War era Ward Hawthorne from a customer today. It is period correct for about 1935/36 and perhaps 1937 but was generally replaced by various wing guards after that. The chain guard on your bike goes the other direction being generally earlier than the bike. I have seen some later Snyder Hawthornes with your tank that are generally convincing in photos so they may be correct but the later tank does not appear in the catalogs. It is a later tank than the vertical gill version and usually turns up on Snyders that are branded other than as Hawthornes. It is up for debate if Hawthornes were produced using the horizontal louver tank. The bike with the vertical gill tank is likely a 1938 Comet model and yours is about a year later as evidenced by the change from smooth crescent to gothic ridged fenders.
#1939 wards hawthorne bicycle serial number#
Unfortunately the serial number on your bike is a Snyder serial number, I have collected many and a pattern exists on those bikes built in 1940 and later but previous to that the numbers have yet to be decoded.ĭigging a little deeper I would say that the two Hawthornes you have pictured are separated by about a year to a year and a half. Snyder tanks are much more common but are generally expensive because there is high demand for them. A tank was produced for the CWC frame but it is just shy of rare.
most of the CWC built bikes were offered at the bottom of the price scale. The Snyder built models with your frame, over time, covered a wider range of the price spectrum at MW, The CWC models are less common and only rose to mid-line status for about a year in 1938. In the case of these bikes, substitution was done but the bikes are actually very different with individual frame geometry and completely different sheet metal. Hi Reginald, both of the bikes in your post are Snyder built Hawthornes, CWC and Snyder both supplied MW with bikes and the bikes were often chosen because one was a close enough replacement for the other that catalog orders could be filled with bikes from either Mfg.
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