Cream and blue are sexy
Gold is a bit too " rich " for me
I vote chrome
I would put dowels in the tailpiece holes, rout it for a Kahler and spray the beast something cool, maybe Candy Apple Red. After that I would put in some high output pickups, locking tuners and rock the hell out of it.
Take off the pickguard and do a ****ty black spray over so every ding thereafter shows the blue underneath. Chrome hardware with a TP-6. Crusty nickel covers on whatever pickups. Black speed knobs. Win.
I presume Kahler hardtail?