Curt Goodrich built most of the Match-built 853 Paramounts, but Tim had assembled a number of talented framebuilders and mechanics including Curt, Kirk Pacenti, Steve Hampsten, Mark Bulgier, Brian McCarthy, Rick Ghneme, Alistair Spence, Martin Tweedy and Dan Swanson. So, Curt wasn't the only one brazing frames.
A total of about 750 Paramounts were built by Match Cycles in the late nineties. A couple of years ago, I e-mailed Curt asking him about the serial numbering scheme Match had used, and he was kind enough to reply:
Hi Stan,
Schwinn did not assign serial numbers. The company had nothing to do with it at all. Subsequently, Match and Serotta assigned whatever serial number system that worked internally for each company. At Match, we just numbered them consecutively. So the 5th Paramount built was numbered 005. The serial numbers didn't include year built and didn't start over with each new year. We built approximately 750 Paramounts total. If you have any other questions feel free to ask.
Curt
The Paramounts (both the Serotta Ti version and the Match steel version) weren't in the 1998 catalog, but here's the 1999 steel Paramount catalog page:
Here's the 2000 steel Paramount catalog page:
...and here's the frame geometry (try to overlook the spelling of Paramount):
