Originally Posted by
gaucho777
Beyond the aesthetic issues, a repaint can also hide repairs, or be necessitated by said repairs. Let's say you buy a bike and in overhauling it you notice overspray of a different color on the fork steerer. Is this a replacement fork, you wonder? Dents can be rolled out, have bondo added and then get a repaint. Maybe even a tube replaced. If it has the original paint, a buyer has a better sense of how hard a life the frame has lived.
This. You don't know what's under the repaint. Also, most glossy repaints don't replicate the original paint well, and they hide some of the bike's beauty. Cars were never produced with the attention to detail most higher end bikes receive...because they're so much larger and more automated.
I'd much rather have a patina'd Galmozzi than a restoration.