Classic & Vintage - Paramount Pictures

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labrador
07-04-07, 01:23 PM
Well I still have the controls and cables to go and I have to find a seat! I guess I am really not sure of the year and if I paid to much for it but I thught it was a good deal.
Doug

labrador
07-04-07, 03:07 PM
Can anyone help me with a year of this? It is a Series 7 and has a decal down the tube that has OS.
Doug
DSchlichting
07-04-07, 03:28 PM
Did you contact Waterford Cycles? Your Paramount may have come out of that facility. If not, with the serial number, I suspect Richard Schwinn can tell you what is the story of your bike.

ga_mueller
07-04-07, 03:33 PM
Are those forks a bit bent towards the top, in the first picture? Maybe just the angle.
labrador
07-04-07, 03:53 PM
ga,
Just to double check them, I went out and I would say it is just the angle of the picture.
labrador
07-04-07, 04:04 PM
Also the decal on the top tube has Series 7 PDG if that helps for the date. OS down the tube that has oversized wrote under it.
BobHufford
07-04-07, 04:09 PM
If that color is what you would call Violet Blue, then it is a '92. The serial number would probably confirm that if it begins with a '2' and a letter.

http://www.waterfordbikes.com/site/company/para_series.php

Bob
oopfoo
07-05-07, 12:13 PM
Can we start calling these bikes "Paramount" with the quotes. It just seems wrong, otherwise. :)
Sporkinum
07-05-07, 12:21 PM
Assuming it has brifters on it, it's exactly the same as my bike. A '92 Series 7 Japanese Paramount. I love my bike. I just got it last fall, and it's the first bike I have ever owned with brifters. It's light by my standards, but not by modern standards.. 22lbs.

It looks like the wheels,stem,crank and deralliuer aren't original though.
Scooper
07-05-07, 02:03 PM
The '92 Series 7 catalog page is HERE (http://www.trfindley.com/flschwinn_1991_2000/1992_Pmt_17.jpg) and HERE (http://www.trfindley.com/flschwinn_1991_2000/1992_Pmt_18.jpg).
labrador
07-05-07, 04:01 PM
Thanks for all the replies! I guess with all I have going on here, I probably will just part it out.
Doug