I would buy any bike, including Fausto's Bianchi, Eddy's Colnago or Constante's Maino, and ride it until it breaks to where I could not ride it. At that point, if it is "famous", I would relagate it to being a wall-queen. If it is a "regular" bike, I would replace the broken part (period correct if possible) and keep on riding the thing like Kurt, until I was dead.

Why wouldn't any of you ride a "famous" bike? Does it matter if a wall-queen is rideable or unrideable? Granted the tires on a 50-year-old bike would be shot, but if they are good to go, so am I.