Hey folks, I'm gonna start this thread without pics, then edit them in later.
Yesterday, I made a little trip down to Tacoma, & picked up an older Bottechia Professional (henceforth called BP, to save typing, LOL) frame & fork. There are definitely a few "imperfections" in the paint, and it's missing the top tube sticker, but overall, it's in very decent condition. The chromed head lugs have a bit of rust, but it's cleaning up pretty well, with Brasso, and I found a small jar of chrome paint today, as well as a blue that probably won't be a "perfect" match for the Bottecchia blue, but it'll at least get it airtight.
This is either a late-60s or early-70s frame, as the large sticker on the seat tube has the block-style lettering, and the race wins from the 60s are advertised ('64-'67). The cool thing is, I'm sure it's a Professional, because it has a sticker that says Campagnolo Prodotti Speciali, and the Columbus tubing foil decal is a very early type, with the outline of a dove, but it's not colored white, like later ones. Plus the Campy dropouts & forkends reinforce the model.
Anyways, besides my great luck yesterday, in acquiring the BP, today I went out for paint & things, & found a C-Record headset, plus a 3 TTT stem, Model 2 or 3 I think, that's pantographed in a few places, most notably with G. Olmo in large cursive script on each side, like a signature. Plus on top are 3 elongated oval-ish indentations, painted in with red, white & green (the Italian colors). I dunno what I did to deserve all this good luck, but I'm liking it a lot.
I had to post something about all this, even without pics for now, but I'll fix that soon. I wanted to clean up the frame some first anyways, the rust was pretty scary looking.
EDIT: I see this is working now. There's much room for improvement, but this is a decent start. I got those lugs cleaned up WAY better than they were, but some work left, on the pitting.