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Nice Specialissima. If you post the serial number we should be able to give you an exact year.

Your upgrades sound pretty reasonable, especially if you keep any old parts in case you would want to take it back to stock at some point. I'm not sure about the 8 or 9 speed indexed shifting though, but I'm a fan of friction shifting in general, especially with bar-cons.

Is this a 5 or a 6 speed freewheel now? If it's 6 it's probably 126mm spacing and you should be able to use a modern 130mm wheelset without too many problems if your brakes can adjust for it. If it's 5 it's probably 120mm and it would need to be cold set. What's wrong with the current wheels?

From the photo, the paint doesn't look bad, why do you want to get it powder coated?

I had a similar SR Apex triple on my '80 gran turismo, it was 52/47/34 and all three rings used the same bcd. Depends on your riding, but I don't really care for half-step+granny cranksets. My miyata 210 also came with one and I swapped it out for a more evenly spaced 50/40/30.

I like your choice of stem, I've had the same exact stem on several of my bikes and I love it.
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