Not all that rare - they show up on eBay fairly regularly. The rather odd thing about women's Paramounts is that the top of the headtube seems to be significantly higher than the top of the seatube - which would tend to place the bars rather high. Perhaps Schwinn thought a lot of women would favor upright bars, even though one often sees these bikes with drop bars. No doubt the women's Paramount is rarer than the men's, though not super rare.
Regards,
Jerry Moos
Big Spring, Texas, USA
> From: john strizek <lyonstrings@yahoo.com>
\r?\n> Subject: [CR] How rare are the women's models?
\r?\n> To: "classic rendevous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
\r?\n> Date: Saturday, June 13, 2009, 7:30 PM
\r?\n> I remember seeing the woman's
\r?\n> model Schwinn Paramount in the ads in the 70s. I know of
\r?\n> only one person who actually had one and that was 35 years
\r?\n> ago. I have never seen another or heard of someone with one.
\r?\n> I have never seen one for sale.
\r?\n> Have any of you ever seen one? Does anyone know of one
\r?\n> in actual existence? I have wondered about the possibility
\r?\n> of any high quality ladies or mixte's frames from other
\r?\n> manufacturers.By high quality I mean Reynolds, Columbus,
\r?\n> Falk, Vitus, or any other lesser known tubing brands.
\r?\n> Perhaps some mixtes are more likely than the traditional
\r?\n> step-through ladies models. I suspect there have been some
\r?\n> custom builds, what about off-the-rack models?
\r?\n>
\r?\n> thank you and happy trails 'til we meet again,
\r?\n>
\r?\n> John Strizek
\r?\n> Sacramento, California USA