Can you ID this prewar bike?

[JE]

OK here you go.The Green bike is my 37 Shelby Airflow the frame is longer between the head tube and down tube. also has deeper fenders.This one will be getting a full restoration as soon as I find a tank for it and finish Dad's flying cloud.

 

[JE]

Here is the flying cloud.I'm taking two 38 Shelby Flying clouds and making one really nice one. I'll take pictures of the fenders and fork tomorrow.I need to move my 1936 Schwinn 1937 schwinn 1934 Elgin and my my Whizzer to get to the cabnit I've got them stored in.

 

[RogerS]

Does the seat post on your Flying Cloud have a right angle at the top? I had never seen this kind of post before.

 

[JE]

The seat post with the right angle at the top is called a luck Seven seat post.my Green bike has one.

 

[JE]

Pictures of the correct seat post fenders fork and tank.

 

[uncle_punk13]

Definitely not a Cleveland Welding (Roadmaster) frame. The chainstays are not swept up at the rear dropouts. That upward sweep is a sure fire way to tell a Cleveland Welding frame at a glance. If you're not sure, see how the chainstay (bottom bar behind the seat tube) sweeps upward towards the rear axle in this photo of a CW bike: http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z21/KilroyCD/My Bikes/100_1325.jpg
The chainring looks like a Schwinn, but the frame definitely looks like a Shelby, as JE said. It's very similar to my Shelby Traveler that is patiently awaiting its turn to be restored.

Yeah that's right! Dang my age- the mind is going... C.W. looked almost like a loop frame. Yeah shelby! That's totally it. Thanks guys!

 

[smitty]

In your photo the fork looks slightly pushed back. You might want to straighten that before you paint it.

 

[h0tr0d]

Very cool project. The tank on that bike looks Awesome.

 

[h0tr0d]

A quick google search showed these are over $6k restored. The original handle bars are pretty wicked. What colors are you going with?

 

[JE]

Red and white on the 38 Flying Cloud and Blue and Red with a white pin stripe on the 37 airflow