mezzanine
Retro Guru
Posted this elsewhere but got no love as maybe lost on the more modern stuff. I'm genuinely curious about peoples thoughts on years within a model production especially Shimano. This can apply to any Shimano year m900/m950/m960/m970 but as model years are normally 5 years or so I like to look at the codes but is it just me but wouldn't a brand new M950 from 1995/96 be of more historical value than a m950 from the last year of production? Or maybe a better example would be the SL-M952 shifters if you find them NOS they first came out in 1998 but were produced all the way out to 2005/06 so is there an extra appeal to buy the earliest years in production or is that getting into philately related detail like plate numbers First Day Covers etc. If we're lucky to get some NOS decent XTR it doesn't really matter at this point in time anyway?
Thoughts and I know these parts are meant to be used not kept new in the box but can't help but like that time warp feeling until the time is right to mount them and the model years is never really used when I see people selling NOS Shimano stuff.
Thanks Mez.
Thoughts and I know these parts are meant to be used not kept new in the box but can't help but like that time warp feeling until the time is right to mount them and the model years is never really used when I see people selling NOS Shimano stuff.
Thanks Mez.