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Cinelli SC - touch up, repaint or leave it?

I could not believe my luck finding this..in my size. Or actually this is the trophy of one year of manically hunting classic lightweights. But still, Cinellis was not sold here (sweden) and...well I am lucky. I think I have arrived now.
The Cinelli was brought here by an american and kindly left here when he sold his house here and returned to the states. The frame is an early 60's with the oil port on the BB. It has an Nouvo Record group pat 73, the wheels are from the early 80's - Campy Record in Super Champion rims.

The bike was in great shape when it was put aside I believe, you can tell that someone cared for his bike...and liked to ride it.
The last owner, who bought the american gentlemans (got to be) house and got a Cinelli SC with it, did not care for it at all (he was thinking of throwing it away). So it has been hanging in a damp garage for the last 10 years.

The paint has many chips in it with some suraface rust in them, especially the seatstays, this dont bother me so much though.
It's the top tube. It had two bubbles in the paint, under the cable clip an on the side, that I had to get rid of (as you can see). Still, moist (rust) is crawling like very fine veins along one side of the top tube. So what do you think I should do? Just touch up the spots I opened on the top tube, wax the bike and pray for a very slow rust process? Repaint just the toptube and maybe the seatstays? Repaint the entire bike (I'm not leaning much towards this..)?
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