The Anniversary Paramounts were meant to be ridden. Most were built up with the 50th Anniversary Campagnolo Group. They were available with or without the gold plated fork. The plating on the forks can wear thin. Mine is and it has never had a wheel clamped in it. It also should have had a stronglight Paramount marked headset as these were installed at Waterford. (I never had much luck with them though and referred to them as "shipping" headsets)
There are quite a few of these around considering they only made around 600 of them. Most were black although other flavours were available. Mine is pearl white. I have seen red and green too.
As mine is also NOS and I am knee deep in Paramounts I will most likely NOT build it.
Regards, Karen Rawls Threatening rain in Winchester VA
> Subject: [CR]Paramount anniversary model and components
>
> This question, or information quest, may be out of the date-range for the
> CR list, but the spirit of it, I hope, falls within its parameters.
>
> A friend of mine recently picked up a NOS, never-been built, Paramount
> anniversary frame and fork, black with gold plated front fork, no headset
> or bb. He would like to know, if these frames and forks were purely meant
> as wall-hangers, were there specific components or grouppo that went with
> the frame and fork, and was there a specific number of these made? Also
> whether what I have heard about or seen written (it all becomes foggy in
> this guy's brain) that the gold plating was terribly thin and was
> all-too-easily removed by cleaning or polishing.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Tom
>
> Tom Hayes
> 18585 Munn Road
> Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44023
> hayesbikes@nls.net
> hayes@jcu.edu