came out very nice!!!! Glad you found the right kickstand finally! It actually looks like they added a bend off the more standard longer one they made in '69. I am planning to make a few of the early continental era size stands my next kickstand run since I haven't done any in a few years. which is what was used on the earlier bikes like I had (econocycle and cub models) and see if you wanted to try one since you were so close to completion. But I still think something might not have meshed with Rupp totally redesigning engine mount plates and kickstands in 1969.
@rokonman you are correct about the Dart cycle roots, Rupp actually started to offer that bike in literature in 1965 (at that time called econocycle with a 220 model number) and was offered as a Kit frame or complete. The frame design stayed pretty much the same right up to the last version in 1971 with only very slight changes to keep up with production changes across the lineup, but the frame shape stayed the same. Its pretty much a Dart cycle at heart, so much so that the earliest one I have ever seen even had the Dart cycle fork plates on it....which did not show up in the first sales literature in '65 so I think this was one of the firsts and probably built off Dart design jigs and leftover frame pieces as the dart bikes were nixed in 1964. Sears was still selling Darts that year, but Rupp seemed to focus their bike efforts on the continental line of bikes
(front wheel is incorrect, its from a 1969, back wheel though is the wheel style they used in 1964 on the first continental, but did go to the turbine gran prix wheels style in 1965), this bike was/is another members years ago:
They even used a seat based off the Dart style (only shorter) till 1968 (ones I had a few years back):
I was toying with creating a Dart-ish custom with this frame since I had the engine already, was even getting some measurements from some other members for the jackshaft plates that stepped the frame, but chickened out and just fixed most of the issues this frame had for someone to use as a solid starting base.....but just imagine the rear shortened up 2" with jackshaft plates making up the space. right behind the engine plates as a start