Get a vat, fill it with aircraft stripper, strip em all in one go, prep like the production frames, toss em on the rack. Bring the batch cost/per frame down on all of them. Seems like a no-brainer.
You guys honestly have no idea what goes into a restoration...stark difference from OEM paint.
I would love to eat my words, so here goes...you will not see restoration services offered. It is not a profitable segment of an OEM business plan.
As an example, I recently completed a restoration on the proto Action Tec Shock-a-Billy for the MOMBAT museum. As with any 25 year old bike, once you take the paint off the years of deterioration begin to show through. Restoration required stripping, blasting, dent removal, welding the aluminum chain stay, repairing the rusted seat tube, fabricating a new titanium pivot pin, solvent bath, and Team Lav paint/decals.
Had this been a customer bike, the cost would have been around $1200.00 bucks for the work completed.
A conservative estimate is 4x the time for a resto vs. an OEM paint job. How many of you would be willing to pay the cost to have it done right?
The answer is "few".
That is why Chris's direction should and will continue to be future manufacturing of new product.
cheers,
rody