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@illy
This frame for life business is a total nonsense. Your tastes will change, you'll get bored of it, you'll crash it and it'll be beyond repair (who seriously gets frames repaired anyway? It is an ideal opportunity for an upgrade.)
Presumably you'll be putting modern parts on it, in which case I wouldn't get an old school steel frame, as I don't think they look right together. Old school frames might look cool and retro but you'll feel like a total tool when you take it on the continent and the old boys glide past you on carbon-encased Campag with humming carbon wheels.
So I'd get a full carbon racing machine with a Campy groupo. If you want something more old school, why not restore a classic Colnago? Or a Pinarello from the early 90s? That would be fun.