We predict a strikingly different A- and Q 2-dependence of quasielastic leptoproduction of the ϱ 0(1 S)-meson and its radial excitation ϱ′(2 S) on nuclei. Whereas for ϱ 0 production the nuclear transparency T A decreases monotonically with A, for the ϱ′ nuclear transparency T A can have the counterintuitive nonmonotonic A-dependence, having a minimum for light nuclei, and increasing with A for medium and heavy nuclei. Strong enhancement of the ϱ′ ϱ 0 cross section ratio makes nuclear targets of the ϱ′-factory. The origin of the anomalous A-dependence is in the interplay of color transparency effects with the nodal structure of the ϱ′ wave function. The predicted effects take place at moderate Q 2 ⪅ (2–3) GeV 2, which can be explored in high statistics experiments at CEBAF.