Last year at the Chicago Bike Winter event (no not Palatine, the one in town), one of 'the regulars,' late in the day, pulled a bike out of the corral and bought it cheap. It was wrapped in electrical tape, black and I think some colors, and looked like a very beat urban assault bike. However this guy noticed that it had nice canti brakes, and with a little investigation, that the fork crown, under the tape (yeah it was everywhere), had an incised 'M.' Yes, it was a Miyata 1000, date 1987 or so. The tape he pulled off revealed a pretty blue paint, in good shape, though that may not have been the case throughout. It almost seemed like someone had tried to disguise the bike and then forgot how nice it was himself so let it go!