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1973 JC Penny 
#1 2007-09-18 7:11am
1973 JC Penny
1973 JC Penny
JC Penny BMX 1968 to 1973 Ugly, but different.
20 inch JC Penney BMX Bike. I attempted to research the bike but not awhole lot out there. The bike did have a sticker that said BMA/6 Certified. Google states that the sticker was used by inspectors in the late 60's early 70's, not sure. It's one of the ugliest bikes I've ever built. The build came out nice, it's just the bike. I put new Tioga tires and KMC chain, paint and awhole lot of elbow grease. Everything else on the bike is Wald. If anyone has any idea's on the year or model, let me know. 
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#2 2007-09-18 9:59pm
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Re: 1973 JC Penny
I remember it had an Evel Knievel-type of sticker set to it if I recall correctly. A kid in my projects had one and everybody wanted to jump curbs with it.
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#3 2007-09-19 4:14pm
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Re: 1973 JC Penny
Where is my Speed Racer Helmet! That bike is cool it looks fast like the HPV type bikes! Nice Restoration!
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#4 2007-09-19 4:53pm
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ShinobiKE-1 wrote:
Where is my Speed Racer Helmet! That bike is cool it looks fast like the HPV type bikes! Nice Restoration!
you should put a M on the top and a 5 on the side that would look so cool
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#6 2007-09-21 10:47am
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This bike appears to be a HUFFY made bike. I'm not 100% sure if Huffy made their own bikes or not. Maybe JC Penney and Huffy used the same supplier. I have a 76 Huffy Thunder Star that I will be restoring in the months to come. The Thunder Star is essentially a 'White' Thunder Road.
Tha Handle bars, rear drop outs and long front forks are identicle to my Huffy. Unfortunately my Huffy is in storage and I don't have any recent pictures. I'll try to get some up.
Here is an ad I found for the Huffy Thunder Road.
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#7 2007-09-21 4:23pm
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crowe-t wrote:
This bike appears to be a HUFFY made bike. I'm not 100% sure if Huffy made their own bikes or not. Maybe JC Penney and Huffy used the same supplier. I have a 76 Huffy Thunder Star that I will be restoring in the months to come. The Thunder Star is essentially a 'White' Thunder Road.
Tha Handle bars, rear drop outs and long front forks are identicle to my Huffy. Unfortunately my Huffy is in storage and I don't have any recent pictures. I'll try to get some up.
Here is an ad I found for the Huffy Thunder Road.
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa23 … /huffy.jpg
I think that hoffy made thes bikes for foremost (JC Penney), murry, and a couple of others companys.
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#8 2007-09-21 5:04pm
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Ruiz bmx - that makes sense that Huffy made their own bikes.
Here is another picture of a black Thunder Road(not mine) that I found somewhere on line.
My White Thunder Star is basically the same, but the bars on the Thunder Star are Chrome like on the JC Penny bike. The Thunder Star also had a number '76' and pads with a stripe and stars. 
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#9 2007-09-21 10:06pm
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Re: 1973 JC Penny
Dang, y'all just took me for a trip in the wayback machine!! 
I forgot all about the Thunder Star! Oh, Huffy made their own bikes as well as a few others. 
I had a Sears Free Spirit that looked a lot like the Thunder Road but had a springer front fork.
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Yep, bmx for life, or until they kick me out of the old folks home for power sliding into Mrs. Wilson's oxygen machine. mikestevens
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#10 2007-09-21 10:37pm
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That's cool, i didn't know Huffy made bikes that were sold under different names. When I saw the pictures of the JC Penny BMX above it was like at my Thunder Star. Hopefully in the next couple of months I'll have it powder coated white and all the chrome re-done.
It would be great to see some pictures of other Huffys. I'll try to find an old picture of mine and post it.
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#11 2007-09-21 10:45pm
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I used to have one of those Huffy's but it had a springer type front fork . I just had a flashback . LOL ! I ate my lunch big time on that thing while showing off to a girl . LOL!
When your high you never wanna come down !
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#17 2007-12-03 8:19pm
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I DONT REMEMBER THE BIKE, BUT I DO REMEMBER THE GRIPS! I HAD THEM ON A FEW BIKE AS A KID .THAT BIKE IS COOL I LIKE IT
those grips are cobra grips oakley 3s, fuan 8 or team cycle I have them on a couple of my bikes. these where my dad's favorite grips.
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#19 2009-03-11 5:29pm
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Re: 1973 JC Penny
Ugliest thing I've ever seen! A face only a mother could love! Oh, the bike is ugly too!
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