Originally Posted by
silvercreek
Did any of the 70's Paramounts come with spoke protectors? Also, if a '78 Paramount is a Paramount color but not on the list of optional colors for that particular year, is it reasonable to assume it has been repainted or could it have been a special ordered color?
As far as the spoke protector is concerned, it looks as if large plastic ones were original equipment along with big ugly reflectors in 1978. Here's the catalog page for the P-13. I also checked the other models and they appear to be wearing them as well.
Is this a picture of your Paramount above? If so it appears to be a very traditional Campus Green. Even if Campus Green was not on the list of available colors in 1978, I can't imagine Schwinn not having it in stock. There had to be 100s of 1000s of EF Schwinns painted this color from the late '60s through the mid '70s.