To be clear, I am not asking how much this bike is worth (I already have an idea of general worth). But, rather than confine to the valuation forum, I figured that I'd ask the bigger group how much a minor dent affects the value of a blue chip bike. On a run of the mill user bike, I'd guess not too much. On a high end collectable bike, I'd guess a lot (20% hit to value?). But, how does it affect value when you start to push the boundary of a collectable bike (+_ $1000 bike) and move towards the rarified air of blue chip collectables such as the '74 Carlsbad Masi?

This bike has many of the premium collectable points of Carlsbad Masi (matching pump, Masi/3tttt bars, original components, and is in generally very nice condition). But, when i moved the cable clips to see how much rust was under, I found a pea sized dent under the middle clip, as well as good sized chip under the front clip.

This, and the large size, definitely knock it out of the crazy price zone (such as the one that went for $3700 last week on the bay). But, does it knock it back down to the solid middle ground (2k range), or somewhere higher or lower?

I can research the selling prices of Masis all day long. But, there aren't a lot of data points for blue chip bikes with relatively singular flaws.

Any thoughts?

Mods - If I'm splitting hairs on the question, feel free to move this to the valuation forum. I posted it here in hopes of a broader conversation about the impact of condition to the value of a blue chip bike.