Originally Posted by bikingshearer

Oh, how wrong you are. Not about the Valentino being a turd - it ansolutely was. And, most un-Campy of all, it was fugly. Not as fugly as teh Nuovo Gran Sport, which looked like somene simply stopped caring, but fugly enough that Valentinop Campagnolo should have changed his name. (Shoe should Edel Ford have, for that matter.) But the Campy Gran Turismo was a bigger turd. Not in terms of performance, mind you - most would agree that they both pretty much sucked - but in raw size and weight. The GT was simply huge and weighed enough to anchor a fair-sized boat. It did look kind of cool, though, in a bloated, "look at the size of the fins on that 1959 Cadillac" sort of way.