Originally Posted by Lascauxcaveman

Other than your original paint being original and in beautiful condition? I guess not. If mine had been as sharp as yours, I wouldn't have had it powder coated (or painted).

Here's the scoop on mine, with lots more pics. In a nutshell, the original finish was pretty hopeless, with lots of little rust patches bubbling up underneath the paint and patches of it completely gone. So I took a flyer on the powder coating, which cost $130 including the media blasting to get the old paint off. The guy did a good job.