06/27/2026
"I dub thee, Hillbilly De Luxe" I'm calling this 1965 De Luxe Stingray done for now! As you can see in earlier posts, this bike was once painted John Deere green by a previous owner who took the bike apart, painted it and then never put it back together.. It currently has an incorrect rear wheel while the OG two speed kickback S2 wheel is waiting to get worked on. This bike will some day be closer to period correct, it was just so dang cool looking that I had to throw some stuff on it and rip it! π . After a number of hours and a little graffiti remover later, the original Coppertone shines again. I did leave some of the green showing on this bike because I wanted to preserve some of it's history and let it tell the story of a previous life.
Mack Swellhaus