"1965" Paramount on Fleabay
09-09-07, 05:48 PM
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Yay! If you look at the statistics page on Paramounts at Waterford you can see that there were 270 total Paramounts in 1959 and 420 in 1965. If you figure that probably less than half of those were tourist models (is that a correct assumption?) these these are very rare bikes and need to be preserved! (If you think of how many were made in a certain size and color, then the count gets even smaller -- then you think of something like the use of lugs like the bike on eBay and then you probably get to single digits ...)
Bob
'75 Paramount (1 of 875)
Bob
'75 Paramount (1 of 875)
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Alan
09-09-07, 10:15 PM
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Ok, that does it. My '61 P-11 just went to the top of the priority list for clean-up. It's completely original, I believe down to the tires, but it needs a lot of cleaning - the paint and decals are very good, but there is quite a bit of dirt and corrosion on the parts. Of course, I only paid $40 for it, so that's not such a big deal. And as I mentioned recently to Bob, it has the Paramount crankset.
All right, Picchio, no more whinin' outta you!
Get down in that basement with some brass wool, mild soap, a bucket of warm water, and a pile of clean, soft cotton rags, and don't come back up until that bike is shining and your pics are ready to post!Sheesh.
09-10-07, 12:51 AM
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P.S.: And that said, I'm glad to see that the bike's origins have indeed been determined. I realized the lugs were familiar, but for the life of me was coming up blank trying to think of a Paramount model that used the standard stamped Schwinn drops. The chainguard mount should have been a dead giveaway.
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Is that bike at Martin's?
Hey, where'd it go?
Hey, where'd it go?
