This sounds like the plan. I have wanted to repaint it totally, keeping the blue and yellow, but will probably just do a spot touchup. When I first found the bike, I did some research into the wheelbase, and this measured spot on.(forgot the numbers now.

I wanted to buy another frame, but they seem to go for 400+ on ebay, when they come up at all. this is the last picture I took, it now has a cinelli stem and one blue and one yellow tire. It looks quite nice. And I am not embarrassed by the triple at all. on the last ride it did, there where a couple of comments in the first 90 miles about triples, but when I spun up the last mountain at miles 91 to 96, no one said anything to me when they got to the top where I was waiting...