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Bryan
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Good score. And thanks for posting the question. I just spent some pleasant time reading about Carl Hedstrom and his developement of the Indian motorcycle in 1901. Unfortunately, I was unable to find anything about your Whisperide. Tomorrow, I'll ask Angel to look. If it's on the net, she will probably find it.
Thanks for checking, I appreciate it. I spent about 6 hours looking at everything I could think of, but found nothing but recalls on Hedstrom toys and swings, and the bankruptcy, SEC investigation and auctioning off of all the company assets and equipment at their 3 factory locations and headquarters.
Loads of people posted about the poor quality of their toys and regular bikes, and it seems a shame that they ran the Hedstrom name into the ground with shoddy work and poor quality. I've searched all the auction sites, Craigslist, and have emails out to various antique toy, bike and pedal car dealers to see if they know anything.
I do have a note written by the owner years ago, of someone he spoke to about the bike and it's price. There was a $1700.00 wholesale figure written down on the paper, and a $1000.00 sale price next to a mention of the word 'ad', so I'm guessing the original owner tried to sell it at one point by advertising it in a newspaper.
I only have the cost of 2 batteries, $150.00, and 3 tires and tubes, $45.00 in it, so if I can get it running and clean it up, maybe one of the blue hairs here in retirement land will take it off my hands for what I have in it. Unless I find out its true value. I may even contact some bike and motorcycle museums to see if there's any info there.
Thanks,
Bryan