The Wacky Purchase

Let me just start by saying this is NOT my bicycle.  I am simply the enabler who convinced the husband he should restore it and then sweetened the pot by offering to pay for it.  I ask you, is this not the most beautiful bicycle you have ever seen??   It is a late 1970s vintage Murry with one speed and coaster brakes.  Love that creamy mocha color with the butter-soft butterscotch seat and hand grips. The tires are even original and still have the little nubs down the center.  My photo doesn't do the colors justice. The tires are called "skin wall" because they are off-white, not whitewalls.  They say "Lightening Dart" on the side and have an embossed picture of an Indian Chief.   If a bicycle can be elegant, this one is. 

It is in excellent condition so mostly just needs to be cleaned up which is all a good thing because I paid way too much.  I'm trying to spin that as an excuse for me to get a fancy phone so I can check prices on the fly.  Lost my mind. 

Didn't lose it the way I did that time I got it into my head that I could restore a 1952 Chevy pickup truck that the poor husband had to pull home on a trailer with the extra cab piled in the bed of the pickup.  I took it completely apart.  Every piece.  I had pieces of truck in both sheds and in the garage and under the apple tree and even in the attic.  I even sand blasted one of the cabs.  It took me 5 years to get THAT mistake out of my backyard, and attic, and I had to give it away to make it go away.  I hope I don't ever lose my mind like that again, although a vintage Airstream trailer at the right price would be pretty tempting....

Don't you think this would look great with a wicker picnic basket attached to the back like a "trunk".  That is, if it was my project, which it is not.  But I'm going to stop at GW tomorrow and see if they have one just in case he might want to see what that would look like...