Paramount Stats
Production Estimates
1938-41 | 900 |
1945-58 | 1000 |
1959 | 270 |
1965 | 420 |
1972 | 3,300 |
1975 | 875 |
1979 | 360 |
1985 | 883 |
1986 | 1,183 |
1987 | 1,504 |
1988 | 1,400 |
1989 | 1,200 |
1990 | 1,083 |
1991 | 892 |
1992 | 580 |
Paramount Model Numbering
Model | Approx. Years | Description |
P10 | 1959-1979 | Std. Road |
P11 | 1959-1969 | Std. Road |
P12 | 1959+ | Std Road |
P13 | 1964-1979 | Deluxe Road – Sometimes Road “Touring” (1964) |
P14 | 1959-1979 | Std. Track. Sometimes a Special Track. |
P14C | 1965-1979 | Deluxe Track (starting 1965) |
P15 | 1970-1979 | Road Touring – Starting Mid 1970. |
P15C | 1970-1979 | Deluxe Road Touring – Starting Mid 1970 |
P61 | 1971-1979 | Std Ladies – the “61” indicated a 21″ model. |
T19 | 1969-1979 | Tandem – 19″ Front |
T22 | Tandem – 22″ Front | |
Elite | 1980-1983 | “Anything Goes” custom bicycles. |
Standard | 1983-1989 | Standard race geometry Paramount. |
Special Edition 50th Anniversary | 1988 | One of 600 or so Paramounts with gold decals, a gold plated fork and special 50th Anniversary certificate. Note: Other 1988 bikes had a small chainstay decal celebrating the 50th Anniversary. |
OS | 1989-1994 | Used special oversized-diameter True-Temper chromoly tubing. Heat treating was added in 1992. Reynolds 753 was added in 1993 and 1994. Last production – September 1994. |