End product looks good nlerner !

I'd been looking and looking and looking for something suitable in the sub-$80 range based on the Google doc LesterOfPuppets posted earlier in the thread (thanks!) but COVID bike tax is an absolute killer right now, I was coming up fairly empty.

I ended up with something not quite "vintage", managed to snag this Marlin @ Goodwill. This is after a spraydown to get the bugs and basement funk off it, it was coated in dust, webs, spent egg sacks, etc. Dork disk still intact without cracks, haze or fading and hardly any brake track wear, so I'm assuming it was rarely ridden much, just how I like 'em.

I might need to turn in my C&V license at this rate. Last three bikes I've picked up all started with "20" in the year. Granted, one was for my kid, and the other was a curb pickup, but ...