Mark Agree wrote:
>
> Need some ID help please! I have three different Campagnolo push-rod type
> front derailleurs, that I'm hoping to get model names and dates for. The
> following is a link to an album containing 5 photos showing different sides of all 3
> subjects at once. We should refer to the units as: Left, Middle, and Right,
> since I took particular care to orient them in the same location for all
> shots. Please click on each thumbnail, then click on the resulting photos, in
> order to view them more closely:
>
> http://www.wooljersey.com/
>
> Notes about each unit:
> Left - Loopy "L" in cage logo, chromed cage ahd hardware, removable guide pin
> (at trail end of cage).
> Middle: - Open "L" in cage logo, chromed cage and hardware, removable guide
> pin.
> Right - Open "L" in cage logo, no chrome on cage nor on most hardware, fixed
> guide pin.
>
> In addition, the Right unit has (had, actually) a sort of shoulder as part of
> the body casting the extends out and around the emergence of the push-rod.
> It has evidently been mostly broken off in this Right example. I initially
> believed this to be a Valentino model (as a more recent replacement for the
> broken original), but the Valentinos seem to have the cage fixing screw on the
> front edge, as opposed to on top like this, and the other two subject derailleurs.
>
> Can some of the 1950s and 60s Campy afficionados please note the approximate
> years of production / availability and the model name of each subject? I am
> trying to mate the unit that is most closely appropriate, with my approx. 1955
> Torpado with "open-C" Campy Gran Sport gruppo. Thanks for any help!
Left -- earlier (date unknown) Middle -- later (date unknown) Right -- Valentino (date 1964 or later)
Most likely to go with circa 1955 Gran Sport groupm (in my opinion)? Left one.
Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, CA
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