Maybe rather than "rare" the better description is that it was made for a relatively short time. Perhaps 3 years?
I also suspect the crank arms cost every bit as much to make as Record arms. Never saw a set retail, only OEM. The three arm GS alloy crank that followed is neat too.
Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ
> Burl Simon wrote:
> >
> > (cut)I showed it to Jim
> > Cunningham at Cylcart and he said he had never seen this decal before,
but
> > that my atala had a rare steel Campy cotterless crank.
>
>
> That's Campagnolo's econo crank from the early 1970s and not what I
> would call rare actually.
>
> Campagnolo Timeline (www.velo-retro.com):
>
> "1971 Catalog #16 Supplement is printed in November for the year-end
> trade shows.
> Included are the Superleggero pedals (black anodized aluminum cages),
> Superleggero seat post (no fluting, thinner wall, aluminum support
> cradle, drilled pivot, originally with engraved graduated scale), and
> plastic Superleggeri pumphead are introduced. Also the patented toothed
> washer (rondella dentata) for the Record sidepull brakes, along with the
> steel Gran Turismo rear derailleur, Velox low-cost derailleur, Elefante
> control lever, the steel three-pin Sport cotterless crankset, Sport
> headset (only two wrench flats) and Allen seatbinder bolt."
>
> Chuck Schmidt
> South Pasadena, Southern California
> cloudy and 65°
>
> .