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40scout

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Hi, I am from South Carolina.
« on: July 26, 2014, 05:26:02 PM »
Just signed up. I have two Servi-cycles.
One has a Continental go cart motor.
The other has the original motor. It has been restored.
I don't know the age of either one yet.

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Re: Hi, I am from South Carolina.
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2014, 05:46:22 PM »
HI and Welcome!  Look under the neck and see if there is a number there. The original one will have a number for sure, as it is an automatic, the other looks much earlier.  Chassis numbers started around 1950.

Post a few more pictures of each bike and the engine number on the original.
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Re: Hi, I am from South Carolina.
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2014, 06:53:27 PM »
The original serial number under the neck is:
 an upside down 2 followed by 9680.
 I don't see a serial number on the other one.
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Re: Hi, I am from South Carolina.
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2014, 07:05:08 PM »
9680 is a 1955 model.  What the upside down number  2 is, I have never seen anything like that.  The handlebars and headlight are probably not original to the bike.
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Re: Hi, I am from South Carolina.
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2014, 07:28:13 PM »
Thank you so much, it is good to know what year it is.  -Brian
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Re: Hi, I am from South Carolina.
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2014, 07:51:58 PM »
Hello Brian and Welcome . A pair of nice looking bikes .
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Re: Hi, I am from South Carolina.
« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2014, 02:06:02 PM »
Welcome Brian .

Nice bikes , for sure .

Pete . :)
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Re: Hi, I am from South Carolina.
« Reply #7 on: July 28, 2014, 07:04:11 PM »
Nice bikes!
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Re: Hi, I am from South Carolina.
« Reply #8 on: July 28, 2014, 07:36:55 PM »
Any chance you can get a photo of that serial number?  It would be very rare for there to be an inverted number.  There should be 5 digits, all in line with each other. 

According to Bob Kerr, a former Simplex employee told him the number was stamped on the plate before it was welded to the frame (he related a story of dropping a box of them one time & they just scooped them up, not paying attention to the order of numbers).

With a 9 as the 2nd digit, a zero should be the 2nd digit....unless it's an extremely rare model that would have a "1" as the first digit.

Is the plate missing from the other bike?
Mike Sal
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Re: Hi, I am from South Carolina.
« Reply #9 on: July 28, 2014, 07:43:58 PM »
Mike, other bike looks like an early frame.  I think the seat bar is attached like an center fill gas tank model.
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Re: Hi, I am from South Carolina.
« Reply #10 on: July 28, 2014, 10:04:42 PM »
Welcome and Very Nice Bikes.  8)
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Re: Hi, I am from South Carolina.
« Reply #11 on: July 29, 2014, 05:00:03 PM »
I took pictures of the serial number. Looks like I was wrong about the upside down 2. I was looking at the whole serial number upside down. Anyone care to decipher this serial number and tell me the age?
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Re: Hi, I am from South Carolina.
« Reply #12 on: July 29, 2014, 07:00:42 PM »
That 2nd digit looks like a 6 to me, which puts you into 1953.  If it's really an 8, then you jump up to 1955.
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Re: Hi, I am from South Carolina.
« Reply #13 on: July 29, 2014, 07:53:27 PM »
Quote from: Mike Sal on July 29, 2014, 07:00:42 PM
That 2nd digit looks like a 6 to me, which puts you into 1953.  If it's really an 8, then you jump up to 1955.
Mike Sal

I agree with Mike.  What is the engine number?
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Re: Hi, I am from South Carolina.
« Reply #14 on: July 30, 2014, 04:20:17 PM »
The engine number is M19480B
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