Confused!
i do not often get involved with the detailed Campag interrogations, but I have been pulled up on this one myself.
My Campag no 17 Catalogue shows the Gran sport (nouvo) and valentino front mechs as being one and the same item. Same part number, made up of the same parts (and numbers). So to me this is the same item placed in two different groups. I realise that there are earlier variants of this mechanism that are different, but it seems to me it evolved to a point were it was used in both groups.
Re. Old races. Not wishing to get in to a competition with Dale on this one, I just mention it for fun. I raced at the Burntisland highland games last Monday (even won the 3 mile handicap). The games were 350 years old. (Obviously they have not always included cycle races, but I think cycle racing was there in the century before the last one). Apparently they are the second oldest games in Scotland, but they do not like to brag, as their near neighbours, Ceres, have the oldest. They are about 650 years old! I was very kindly help by an American tourist, from Florida, he pushed me off for the start of the 2 mile race. (2nd). I was racing on a newly build Bates track frame, 531, Nervex lugs, cinelli bracket, Chater lea track ends and some monstrously oversized fork blades. Black and cream.
Regards
Martin Coopland