More then familiar, Mark - the brake bridge and fastback cluster are identical. Adubbw told me that she was offered $300 to terminate the auction, and ddid so.
My guess is that the fellow selling it now is buying beat framesets right and left to refinish and flip for a hefty profit - not more then two weeks ago, he had a teal Paramount track for sale with a similarly overdone finish (i.e., far too much clearcoat to look original), along with those same, awful post-'63 Paramount downtube decal repops. Seems to work for him - $900+ for a refinished Paramount P-13 frameset has to be some sort of a record (especially for a modified example).
What surprises me is that anyone would spend $900+ on a with those decals - under the clear, no less. Never mind the modifications - they look rather snazzy at that, if slightly '80s-inclined - I simply couldn't live with those decals on my downtube, not even if the frame was $10 B.I.N.
Kurt Kaminer Miami, Florida USA
accobra wrote:
> Actually I have been thinking the same thing as Kurt. This frameset looks familiar to me too, albeit without the current paint job, but also listed on eBay within the last year or number of months.
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> Mark Winkelman
> Dallas, Texas USA
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>> From: Kurt Kaminer <cudak888@aol.com>
>> Sent: Oct 25, 2009 10:35 AM
>> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>> Subject: Re: [CR] Fastback Paramount
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>> Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't this frame offered on eBay not long
>> ago? I remember seeing a disastrous black P-13 project listed (and
>> pulled) around 9/13/09. Aside from being a literal ball of rust on the
>> chrome, it had been modified in an identical fashion to this machine,
>> fastback cluster and all. Seller was adubbw; she might send you one of
>> the photos of it if you ask.
>>
>> If it /is/, a new frame it is not. Granted, it had been repainted, but
>> it showed a good 15 +/- years of neglect on it.
>>
>> Kurt Kaminer
>> Miami, Florida USA
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