Originally Posted by
Bicyleman
If you click on the pic, you get a big pic. First off, these are graphics from the 80s. Also, this frame is non-lugged or appears to be. This is not one of the revered Paramounts from the 70s and earlier which generally were Campy and did not have a screaming Shimano decal. I remember when these were sold at my local Schwinn shop shortly before Schwinn was sold.
The OP should post this bike in the Vintage and Classic forum and he will get a detailed history from those guys. Beware, though, they will tear him up for the way somebody butchered it into a fixed nightmare.
Even the "custom" one in your linked article wasn't revered as much as earlier Paramounts. In my neck of the woods, they were pretty passé by 1989.
Enter the Waterfords which revived a lot of the old quality and mystique.