Originally Posted by
AngryFrankie
I wouldn't paint that bike unless you could somehow confirm that it's not original, and it's bad. It might have even been repainted at MASI. Who knows? It doesn't look bad at all. There could be many reasons it might look a little different than other existing GCs. It would be a shame to wipe away an original paint job. That derailleur date is a perfect example of why you have to be careful jumping to conclusions. Might well be a replacement that came off of an older bike after one was damaged.
I am confident it was not repainted at Masi in California. Two clients of the time did send theirs off for repaint. On one, the hurdle was that it had the original style transfers, but got the current versions with the repaint, at least they put the world champ bands on the seat tube as it was an Italian bike. The finish and transfer placement were spot on. The other bike was refinished in the original yellow. That is when we found out that the yellow took more time to do, so became a special order color only.