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Oooh! What a little beauty there, Dave!

Is that a re-spray on the tins or original paint?




best I can tell it's original, the paint has some good crack lines on the tank and there are a few scratches here and there with no other color or evidence to say otherwise. I'll ask my friend I bought it from, maybe he'll know.



Yeah, looking at it a little more closely and seeing a few little chips here and there, I'd also say that that's probably the original paint. And so, I wouldn't do anything to it at all except perhaps clean the engine a little (though not TOO much, as in "over-polishing" it) and keep it in the "original/unrestored" condition it's presently in.

(...and yeah...I have NO idea what Jason from Down-Under is talkin' about here!..."customize" THIS BEAUTY?!!...NEVER!!!...and not when an old bike is in THIS kind of great shape...you only do THAT to an old bike when parts of it are missing and/or if it's in really sorry shape when ya get it!...no offense here however, Jason)

Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)