Help please - Aluminium GT serial numbers

[samwawa]

Cheers! Strange I'm yet to find it in a 1996 catalogue

 

[kingoffootball]

This is likely to be a January (A) 1996 frame (6).

If it is, it doesn't match he other 1996 serial formats I have, as hey are all SY# where the # is the year, but it is possible they changed during the year, or had different models made in different places.