Here's what the bike looked like when I brought it home. Not in bad shape overall -- just very dirty and needing a top to bottom overhaul of all of its components. But, the bike was almost entirely original, had its original components and even a couple of period correct options like the water bottle cage and a wheel mounted odometer:

First thing was to completely strip the bike down to the frame. At this point, I also cleaned a lot of the gunk off with 409

I decided to preserve the original finish, with scratches, chips, etc. I wet sanded the frame, added reproduction, but correct, decals and then clear coated it.:

Cleaned and smoothed out the bottom bracket bearing cups. Modern bottom brackets on higher end bikes now use external bearings -- much easier to maintain and much smoother:

This is what the crankset looked like when I pulled it off the bike --

I took the crankset apart, hit it with a wire brush followed by 1500 grit sandpaper and then a coat of polish after that. Almost factory fresh!

Unlike my other projects like the Electric Bike and the Austin Healey which had some degree of time sensitivity to them, there really is no rush on this project. I work on it a couple of nights each week. Should be fun once its done: