Originally Posted by Preynmantis

Your second description, modern components. Mainly aero brakes. I am not sure I would put on brifters even if I could. The main idea for the immediate changes will be adding an ultra-6 FW, aero brakes, wider bar, and changing out saddle, brake housing, and bar wrap (gotta be color coordinated, moving away from the brown accents and going to yellow/black).

However, I will be keeping a watch out for a good donor group set. Maybe a nice Shimano 600 with indexed shifting.

I do agree with you, I would have to spend some serious cash to replace this steel frame with something as nice.