Whatever is done to finish off the work is in the preparation. A good pure wax does a good job of protection. It does a lousy job of cleaning up all the chalking.
10 years old & even with 6 months each year spent indoors our front cap decals were a mess. I happen to have a spare "Alpenlite" cap decal but thought, why should I spend money applying it & advertising a defunct company? Why spend money to act as a billboard for any company really?
For less than $200 I removed the old decal, cleaned & restored the whole front cap to near new shine & had a sign maker print & helped install a truly one of a kind front cap decal.
Nobody else can have this one. I took the picture. It was not found on the internet somewhere. Used the highest quality material to print it on.
Just another option when deciding on what to do about the front cap.