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I owned a 1956 Paramount convertible from 1973 to 1975. As stated in the main article, it had a hand formed aluminium body over a wooden frame mounted on a hand made tubular steel chassis. The body was a four passenger with green leather. It had the smaller Ford sidevalve (flat head) engine and other Ford drivetrain components. It was nice to drive, but underpowered. The syling was typical late 1940's British with huge, bulbous front wings (fenders). There was a petrol tank mounted in the rear of each front wing. It seemed like a dangerous place to carry the fuel. In 1974 we drove to Leighton Buzzard and spoke with several people who had been involved with the company. At that time the remnants of Paramount were owned by the Ford dealership in Leighton Buzzard. They told us that 117 Paramounts had been built. Two were two door saloon cars (sedans) and the rest were two door drop heads (convertibles). Both sedans were thought to have been destroyed. They were only aware of about a dozen surviving examples. I believe the number plate on mine was SXM 069 or something similar.