I was shocked that I won the auction!

I purchased it with some intentions of having it stripped and re-finished, but all things considered the powdercoat is in really great shape and so are the decals so there's no really good reason to do that. Aside from my general overwhelming desire to have a baby blue track frameset with yellow handlebar tape

It had two other foil decals on the seat tube, one was an general undated "Tour de France" and the other a "Giro d'Italia". I took those off and I like the look a lot more - the remaining seat tube decal has Merckx's portrait inside a diamond of world champ colors.

I can't say I'm a fan or not of Merckx - my parents were both in grade school during his career so he was just a little before my time I like the character the decals give the frame though