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I believe you are missing the point Jeff made. The machine was made in 1971. A component video interface did not exist in 1971.
The problem is, as Jeff pointed out, an inherent mechanical inability to record a full composite color signal via helical VTRs in 1971 prior to the introduction of a digital timebase corrector. The velocity error without timebase correction is too great. To overcome the velocity error, a color under technique was employed. This meant the chroma was hetrodyned under the FM luma on the tape. I suspect the video color connector was for a separate heterodyne unit to facilitate color under recording. Without the unit, you will only be able to record monochrome video. The flashes of color is caused by trapped chroma in the luma channel which occasionally will cause the TV chroma demodulator to lock. But the extreme velocity errors won't allow the chroma demodulator to lock for long.
The unit you have is likely incomplete and can only be used for monochrome recording. If you have the manual you can check for sure.
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