You got it. I have one (Model 94 3030 Winchester) that is 51 years old, and Dad bought it new. I would just about sell my house before I would sell it.
My Grandfather, when he was a boy found a octagon lever action 22, along with a lantern, and cast iron skillet, in a clay cave on the Verdigris River in Rogers County Oklahoma when he was a kid in the early 1900s. It was in the early 20s and someone was probably ridding the owl hoot trail and using the place for a hide out, as Oklahoma in that part was pretty rowdy back then. He hunted with that rifle and a single shot shotgun until he gave me the rifle just before he died in 1962. Someone stole the rifle a couple years later, and I would give my left _ to get it back.
Just like my 51 year old Winchester, those old guns have character, and have proven they will last more than one generation REGARDLESS of the outside finish "WEARING" off.
Man I would have liked to have had his grandpa's rifle. My Dad fired my 3030 7 times, and then gave it to me. It was like new then, but I look now at the worn bluing, and fading finish, and every scratch has a memory, and the bluing disappears with the wear from my own hands.