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@Rik_Van_Looy
Agreed - Leave frame & paintwork alone...
Here are 3 good reasons to leave it as it is.
Convert it to fixed by all means, but leave the dropouts as they are and all the braze ons intact, then in 6 months time when you want a proper tight & rad tarck bike you can fit gears and use this for weekend rides and be as rock-hard as millar himself.
Here are a few perfectly nice looking Pug-fixies the really would not be made any better if they had track ends that would make the pedals scrape when cornering sharply/hill bombing/showing rad skills/riding to the Indian take-away...
http://www.kstone.org/peugeot79pxn10e.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6194/6067127906_2af1b3235a_b.jpg
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u201/jo_hoops_photo/fixed%20gear%20and%20singlespeed/SNB10092-1.jpg
http://lp1.pinkbike.org/p4pb5675956/p4pb5675956.jpg
http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/sortedorte/DSC_00041_zps406f783e.jpg