The Good: Have a fully functional Night Rider with a pretty decent playfield and nice backglass that I'm freshening up to sell. Boards are in nice shape too, with a few chips re-socketed on the MPU already. Got new rubber and glass, and gonna go through the slings, pops and flippers and rebuild/replace as needed.

The Bad: Someone thought the cabinet would look better beige.

I assume most people would want the original artwork on the game, and guessing maybe $275 in materials to stencil it (stencil kit, sandpaper, paint, primer, etc). But doing all that work would damn near double what I'd ask for the game as-is.

I'd be doing the painting in an attached garage, with a portable propane heater. The sanding would be done in the driveway to keep the debris outside. Did I mention I'm in Michigan, and it's almost January...

So - would you guys go through with stenciling this thing, and why? Or why not?

Release the Kraken!

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This would be my 3rd cabinet restore. The more I ponder it, I think I'm with you guys, just gonna see if I get any bites as-is.

I'm gonna get some xylene and see what's under this beige first....good thinking.

Just ran across this old thread and thought I'd update the result -

I ended up getting some xylene and it did nothing -

Sold the game and a month later saw it listed on Craigslist again, the guy that bought it used a sander to get down to the original paint and actually didn't mess it up too awful bad.

The end.