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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 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. If you see my Paragon cabinet re-spray pages you will notice that the cabinet on it is VERY faded BUT the playfield and back glass are in great shape apart from one wear spot on the playfield that I am fairly sure I will be able to fix.
I hope that you enjoy my Paragon Restoration pages that follow.
Using commercially made stencils I was able to bring this dull cabinet and backbox back to a better than new condition. Cabinet Re-Spray Page 1 Cabinet Re-Spray Page 2 Cabinet Re-Spray Page 3 Cabinet Re-Spray Page 4
Backbox Re-Spray Page 1 Back box Re-Spray Page 2 Backbox Re-Spray Page 3
A lower section of my playfield was worn back to bare wood- now it is not. Worn Playfield Page 1 Worn Playfield Page 2
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