I agree. I feel no happiness that you have decided to not come back. I would be much happier if you really thought your plans through, realized that destroying a vintage frame with very finite availability with an unneeded customization isn't in the best interests of the biking community and looked for a good yet cosmetically challenged frame that fits you and decided to go to town on that.

Its not that much different than the people who buy beautiful vintage classic frames and cut off all the braze-ons and drop out hangers and paint it lime green just to make a fixie out of it. That frame is no longer a classic vintage frame, its just an old frame that lost all its originality and beauty in a sea of fixies. Its just sad. There are a ton of vintage bike lovers who would kill to have a beautiful unrestored original frame and to read about someone who plans on stripping it and repainting it just hurts when there are a lot of mechanically sound high end frames that are not pretty and need restoration.