No doubt some of you will groan, "no more Ebay Campy stuff!" However, this one might interest some of you, so I'm making a rare (for me) Ebay outing to CR. This panto-tastic crank, which is really WAY over-the-top in Campy pride, has one interesting attribute. There are no flutes on the arms, and it has a 1983 date code. This suggests that it was seriously thinned down, which doesn't appear to be the case, or that it was a special no-flute arm before it went to the "pantographer." Between the apparent special arm and all that crazy Campy engraving, I wonder if it wasn't some sort of factory effort.
And please, no posts to tell me that the later arms had no flutes. This is a 1983 unit and the no flute arms were 1985 at the earliest... Hey, there were the no-flute Anniversary arms in 1983, so there would have been a ready source of blanks for this type of panto crank if some Anni arms were pulled from production before engraving. In fact, the truly committed aftermarket panto effort could have involved buying completed Anni cranks, milling off the shallow Tullio signature and going to town, though the former approach seems more plausible. Still this crank seems like it could have been made for Campy's own use at trade shows and the like.
Ebay Item number 7165135276
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