Opinions please...

While I hem and haw (and try to pry the wallet open on the Ti Tubus Airy), I picked up an early Jim Blackburn rack, laying around at the co-op, for the Spectrum.

It is of course bare aluminum...I can:

a) clean it up/lightly "polish" it

or

b) paint it to match, as some of the early Treks had apparently.

Here's the Spectrum again (sans tape) for reference:



???