As usual - it was a shocker !

Actually , you will notice that the cabinet on it is VERY faded BUT the playfield and back glass were in great shape apart from one wear spot on the playfield that I am fairly sure I will be able to fix.

I picked up this Bally Paragon in February 2005 after a 5 year search. It was on E-Bay and did not sell at the high start price the guy had on it  so I kept in touch with him after the auction closed and traveled an 8 hour round trip to finally buy it at exactly half the price he had listed it on E-Bay for.

Is this " the most beautiful pinball machine ever made" as some have described it? Well, that's an individual opinion, personally I think that Paragon is one of the most under-rated pinball machines of it's time.

This  was Bally's first Widebody pinball machine and introduced " In- Line Drop Targets" as well as having some other unique playfield area's not seen on other pinball machines.

Some people don't like it as the dual flipper makes it  difficult to play, there were some Paragon machines that had a modification so that it only had 1 flipper on the right side. I considered converting this Paragon  in my restore but decided to leave it as it was meant to be.

The artwork on this machine was done by Paul Faris and Paragon is said to be a "follow up" to Bally's Lost World which also used the same characters on the back glass as what you see on Paragon.

I thought it was worthy of a restoration.

Using commercially made stencils I was able to complete a nice re-spray of this cabinet

The stencils also helped me do the back box

I didn't take a whole lot of before and after shots so this is just a page of large finished playfield and backglass detail