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...it apparently spent some time in Hawaii, so had some minor rusting issues everyplace the owner had chipped the paint near a lug or at the BB, and even thought the chrome was still intact, I always thought that the ones with a chrome fork look kind of generic. And I've seen a lot of Colnago chrome start to rust. So I decided not to strip it, but rather to pay attention to sanding and prepping the rust spots, then primed, then overpainted all that with a matched color coat (matching being the hardest part, of course). The stay decals are new, as is the one on the head tube. Then cleared over everything once or twice with urethane 2 part. Just roughed the fork chrome and primed/painted to match
I was happy it turned out well. Sometimes when I don't strip the whole thing, but try to match and blend, I end up stripping everything anyway, because it's just too hard to color match some stuff.
I might be high on my values, because stuff seems to sell for more here than other places.
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