Originally Posted by
juvela
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An enthusiast seeking an original Grand Record would value finding one with original fittings. One path to take might be to remove all of the non-original fittings and offer the balance as a partial cycle. In this manner it could be kept together as far a possible.
Given your finish restoration skills the "clear coat turned to powder" must be a pretty bad problem.
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Thanks. Yeah, the paint is fairly bad. I'd guess I'd spend 30-40 hours of hand-sanding/stripping to end up with a paint job that's merely a polished primer, even with surmising I could clean around the graphics well enough to salvage them. It doesn't seem worth it to buy replacement decals and go through that amount of work to salvage a sellable frame that wouldn't net much. A larger frame size, maybe, but with 52cm ST and 55cm TT, it would be a limited-market sell.