That's gotta be on of the finest fixed conversions I've ever seen.

I love the light.

I was wondering when that beautiful coppertone baby was going to show up to this party! That is the most beautiful bike, IMHO!

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Look at this one on eBay........what a beauty!!!!!!!!!!

I wish I was a richer man.

Nice, nice Paramounts all!! Keep 'em comin'!!

This one has me droolin'.....


Wow.....just....Wow!

Me likey

No Paramount thread can be complete without a MOS!

McDave,

WOW! WHAT A PICTURE!

Hey thanks!

Edit: I'm enjoying yours and dck's photos too. Great backgrounds!

My vote is for this one ...



That is my dream Paramount.

For a "modern" era bike -- this one floats my boat:



More pics here.

Bob "My '75 P-10 is too knackered to share" Hufford
Springfield, MO

For a "modern" era bike -- this one floats my boat:

More pics here.

Bob "My '75 P-10 is too knackered to share" Hufford
Springfield, MO[/QUOTE]

Bob....that is one of the "Elite" Paramounts.....(gulp) , isn't it?.....

Well, that is the "Elite" decal set and that frame has some custom features with the chome lugs and stays, so I'd say ... yes.

Wish it was my size ...

Bob

...but it does appear to be my size....

Lordy, I could get in realllll trouble here.....

C'mon folks......need more Paramount pics!!

Some of ya's haven't posted yet......you know who you are!

Bob, I agree, the Violet Paramount is stunning.

I agree. It's even pretty close to my size. Beautiful bike and a beautiful shot.

I hate each and every one of you!

'89 OS, 8 spd. dura ace -

I'm no painter but it sounds like Mystic, a special paint Ford used on a few '95 Thunderbirds and a couple years on Mustang Cobras. It's very expensive and thus very rare. I found reference that whenever a Cobra needs repainting a representative from Ford brings the special Dupont paint to the Dealer body shop and waits until the car is finished, then takes the leftover paint back with him. Other makes of cars also use a color-shifting paint, but Ford protects it's particular blend for exclusivity's sake, though the Chameleon blue Mystic Thunderbird paint looks very similar to your bike. Cool stuff!

Both pictured I purchased from the original owner for a song. He actually came up to me while I was getting ready for a ride and said he had some big Paramounts he wanted to sell. My Luckiest day ever!!!!

This isn't mine, but I find this is one of my favorite P14 I have seen and it has a great story to go with it.



Read the story on his FGG submission

The custom factory paint which I saw on one Ford Cobra around 1996 was pretty amazing. It changed colors, under the same lighting, depending on which angle you viewed the car from. You could stand directly beside it and looking toward the front of the car it would be a rich candy metallic Purple, but then looking toward the rear it was a deep metallic candy Green. The transition even viewing it at a few inches from the car and in bright sunlight was impossible to understand. The car was parked outside a restaurant and in no time there were a dozen or more otherwise intelligent adult business men gathered around simply gawking with their faces pressed close to the car and scratching their heads like a group of primitive savages. The car's owner finally came out. Obviously accustomed to the scene, he chuckled and said it was a new custom experimental paint they were just beginning to test on a few cars as an option. The only hint he could offer was that he was told the paint was applied in several seperate layers of color and there were actually something similar to tiny prisms embedded in the base, all under multiple layers of clear to give the wet candied look. He said the paint job option had cost him an additional
"several thousand dollars" - enough to raise the total cost for that car an additional 20%.

There you go Dr. D. ~ Figure out the formula or the concept and nobody will EVER let you rest.

I'm so tired of seeing so many gaudy paint jobs and massive billboards full of logos plastered onto so many bikes since the late 1980s, I find that I'm now becoming drawn to very simple and basic colors - such as the simple light blue Paramount someone had posted earlier.

I have seen several cars with that custom paint in this area. The one body man I know said the paint runs about $1500.00 a gallon. That is not a mistype. Lesser amounts were about $700 a quart. A bike would cost a lot to paint will that. He also said it is impossible repair and scratches require a complete repaint. He told me he had done one street rod with it and the paint job was almost $8000 by the time it was finished. Roger

McDave and Stronglight,
I tried to get you guys a few photos when I came home during my lunch hour to illustrate the color change, but the camera doesn't pick it up well; today is not very nice/sunny weather here. The finest job I've ever seen of somebody capturing it was this classic, and the photo doesn't do that bike justice:
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(This is a PARAMOUNT thread, so I thought I'd mention that the complete First Flight link is fascinating if you like Buell motorcycles or Paramount/MTB tech/history: https://www.firstflightbikes.com/1992_Schwinn_SASS.htm )




And without bright sun, I can't capture it. It looks completely different in person than on these photos- My camera isn't good enough to capture the color angles...

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These are poor, low resolution photos, but all I have at the present.

My '62



Original photo from seller of my '71 P15. Since fixed up a bit.



My '89