I'm new to this forum, but old everywhere else. I bought a frame on eBay a year ago that was advertised as a Schwinn Paramount. It has a Schwinn head badge and stickers on it that say "Paramount". Even the rear brake stay (or whatever its called) has "Schwinn" etched into the metal, or however they do things like that.
I contacted Richard Schwinn, grandson of Ignaz Schwinn and sent pictures. He said it is definitely NOT a Schwinn, and therefore not a Paramount.
The strange thing about the frame is the stamp on the non-drive rear dropout, where typically Paramounts have their date and serial number stamped. But this frame has Einstein's famous energy equation - E = Mc2 (the 2 is a superscript, just as physicists write it).
Anybody have any ideas as to where this frame is from? I would guess early to mid 1980's. It has a Cinelli bottom bracket and came with a Campagnolo headset and Campy BB/axle.
I contacted Richard Schwinn, grandson of Ignaz Schwinn and sent pictures. He said it is definitely NOT a Schwinn, and therefore not a Paramount.
The strange thing about the frame is the stamp on the non-drive rear dropout, where typically Paramounts have their date and serial number stamped. But this frame has Einstein's famous energy equation - E = Mc2 (the 2 is a superscript, just as physicists write it).
Anybody have any ideas as to where this frame is from? I would guess early to mid 1980's. It has a Cinelli bottom bracket and came with a Campagnolo headset and Campy BB/axle.
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![IMG_0822[1].JPG](/data/attachments/648/648163-36c265be485220649f674164d4a1380e.jpg)
