What was this Paramount frame originally?

[nortonguy]

I am sure there are some here who can make a good guess as to what this was when it was new. It looks to have been green. Someone stripped it bare and sold it to me for a few dollars because the seat-tube is cracked right where it goes into the bottom-bracket. Maybe it's spec when new is lost forever, I don't know much about Paramounts, but I think their lineup was road-racers and also road bikes with triple and double crank sets. I did get the fork with it. I am guessing it is from the early 70s. Thank-you in advance.....

 

[GTs58]

386th frame built in April 1967? No chrome stays or lugs on the 1977 model. Repainted and decaled.

 

[Trainman999]

As it has no rack eyelets on the droupout or brake cable braiz on on the top tube it would be a P13. It is the 86th frame of April 1973

 

[nortonguy]

As it has no rack eyelets on the droupout or brake cable braiz on on the top tube it would be a P13. It is the 86th frame of April 1973

I looked up P13 and found an article that says would make it a pretty cool bike in a way because it was the first to be made to take 700c wheels, and it had no eyelets because it was the racing model right? I guess that means I should try to repair it. Just what I needed, another project.....

 

[Eric Amlie]

I guess that means I should try to repair it. Just what I needed, another project.....

Only if it's a good fit for you.
You'll get a good bit of money stuck into repairing & refinishing.
I don't think that makes sense unless it fits you well.

 

[fattyre]

Decent complete Paramounts can be found for under $1000. Probably not possible to build a similar bike for less. Especially with a broken frame.

Run away from that project. It’s a mirage.

 

[nortonguy]

Only if it's a good fit for you.
You'll get a good bit of money stuck into repairing & refinishing.
I don't think that makes sense unless it fits you well.

It is my size, especially now after I fixed it this afternoon. Did not cost me anything but time. I am not interested in making a show-winner, just a beater rider. I will save as much of the original paint as I can, then put it together with whatever parts I can find. Already have a Brooks pro seat, and found a set of Campy record hubs at an estate sale this summer for ten dollars. Next will put a head-set and BB in and will shorten and chase the threads on the front fork to match what I had to take out of the head and seat tubes to get it back together.

 

[nortonguy]

cut the fork in the middle and shortened it today to match the frame;

 

[nortonguy]

Last night bolted a bunch of parts on the bike from the junk-box, and this morning took the bike for a 25-mile ride as a single-speed with 52/18 gearing, including stomping it up a long 5% grade with my 200+ pounds, and nothing came apart so it looks good. Next will keep an eye out for parts the bike may have come with when it was new. The ride today was the bike's 50th birthday present I thought.

 

[nortonguy]

I have a set of Campy hubs gotten from an estate sale for ten bucks, and a good friend has donated a Paramount head-badge and Campy shifter and cable-guide, so the bike will move towards a more original spec over time.