[CR] My two cents on the NOS Paramount and my new purchase of a 68 Paramount

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From: <Wornoutguy@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 18:55:35 EDT
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR] My two cents on the NOS Paramount and my new purchase of a 68 Paramount

What is something NOS worth? Whatever someone will pay for it is the answer. If you had a time machine that bike would cost you more than $2,500 once you take into consideration inflation. A model T might have sold for $250 dollars new what is a NOS Model T Ford worth now? I just paid $650 for a 1968 Paramount track bicycle touched up with one little dent. It is missing the bars, stem, pedals, chain and lockring. I feel I got a good deal. It is my size and a comperable modern track bike would cost me more than that. There is one like it hanging from the cieling in Hemet CA at Strawberry bicycle shop he has a price tag of $2,500. No one has purchased it for that but he is not hurting anything wishing. If you were the one selling the bike you would want whatever you could get. How many of us sell stuff to loose money?

Sam DiBartolomeo
Riverside, CA