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Bottecchia 989 frame, from my personal experience, is one of the nicest Italian frames I've owned / ridden, with possibly the crappiest paint scheme of any frame I've ever seen.
What it may have is a hidden delight however, with the most amazing perfectly chromed forks under that ghastly red paint.
I decided to have my frame refinished in the classic black & chrome SCIC/Bottecchia colours. I stripped the paint to send the forks to be polished/chromed, only to find they were immaculately polished / chromed already! (possibly the best I've ever seen).
My guess is that these frames were hanging around at Carnielli after steel became unfashionable, so they painted them up as cheaply as possible to shift them out of the door.
I paid £70 for mine NOS some years ago, possibly one of my better buys in life.
CicloMondo do all the decals to refinish the frame (various types over the years, but strangeley no demand for the crap 989 decals!) . They do the gold foil headtube badge which no-one else appears to do.