Paint it or leave it?

[NYSoul]

I have just got an 87 GT which is pretty original (some questions coming about stuff i aint sure about). The paint is good but but not perfect and has a few deep scratches, at some point in its life it has been touched up with a paint stick and where that has been done it really shows. I would like to have it perfect but at the same time i am also feeling its wrong to paint something so good.

Some questions...
When i got the bike it came with an SR 1 piece crank, a black chain and a late 80's GT chainwheel. The chainwheel looks right but the chain and the crank dont. It also has sticker residue where "Team Model" stickers would have gone. I am thinking it might have been a Team Model with a power series crank and the crank has been robbed at some point. Can I tell from a serial number or is there anything else that would give it away? (I have a later GT crank, chrome chain and Dyno chainwheel in the pics)
The stem does not look right either and at some point it has had a wider stem as there are marks on the bars, is it likely to have had the big GT block stem when new?
Would it have had a Gyro and not a rotor?
and one more.... Do the bars look right?

[oberonspacefruit]

oh, you so need to leave it.

[lazychubs]

yep deffo leave it and pull bars back a tad lol
looks the dogs mate

[NYSoul]

To be honest thats what i was thinking. I could see myself in 6 months time when i had learnt more kicking myself for painting something that was good to start with.

Cheers

[oberonspacefruit]

wait till pete quad see's it. ask him...

[harris]

i think it would look better ............in my shed  :daumenhoch:nice ride that mate .

[NYSoul]

Who is Pete Quad?

[oberonspacefruit]

quadraphenia. he has always wanted a gt.

[NYSoul]

Will he be clued up on the stem and crank?
Anyone else know where there might be more info, i have looked at the brouchers that were posted the other day and none of them show that stem or the rotor but then they dont show the bike in green either.

Cheers

[DR VINOAH]

ny this might be of some help

[harris]

well found v i have something for you that you might like ,just hope i dont for get to bring it with me.

[DR VINOAH]

what is it?........no dont tell me.......i cant wait

the pic could have done with being a tad bigger

[NYSoul]

Its big enough to answer the questions i had. Cheers for that
The only doubts i had were that the Team Models were all stickered "Performers" and mine has "Freestyle" written on the main sticker. At the bottom of that ad it clears that up though

The bit on my frame where it looks like stickers have been removed is exactly where the "Team Model" ones are in the pic.


I feel like i have been mugged in the street now some nasty person in the world has my cranks

Anyone got some for sale? I also need a block stem (in white if poss) a white gyro, some team model decals and whatever pedals and chain would have been on the bike from new.


Thanks for all your help

[stuntmaster]

got a block stem but not white tho £30 quid at mk ,if any good to you

[mif]

it looks the monkeys mate, id leave it as it is

[NYSoul]

got a block stem but not white tho £30 quid at mk ,if any good to you

Am trying to get to MK on the Sunday but not sure yet, if you were taking it anyway I would love to have a look can you pm me your number so i can find you if i am coming.
Thanks
Matt