Help please - Steel GT serial numbers

[Mickeyspinn]

I forgot all about this!


^should be a 91 outpost


^dunno what year! But it's a steel aggressor.


^should be a 91/92 timberline.

I'll do a load more tomorrow

 

[kingoffootball]

I forgot all about this!

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^should be a 91 outpost

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^dunno what year! But it's a steel aggressor.

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^should be a 91/92 timberline.

I'll do a load more tomorrow

Thank you! All three of those give me new information and help with details from the frame numbers.

In return, information that may be of interest:

Outpost - This is a 1992, as they used Inferno Red for the Outpost that year, after using it for the Karakoram the year before. This is the earliest frame I have recorded so far built in Taiwan (Hodaka) rather than Japan (Toyo). That makes sense as it seems to have been a gradual move starting with the lower models. I'm fairly confident it was made in January 1992.

Aggressor - the frame was made in 1994, so is either a 1994 (first year for the Aggressor) or 1995 model. The alternative colour option in 1994 was Baja Blue, so that could be it, although the blue in your photo looks a little darker. I haven't seen a comprehensive 1995 catalogue yet, so I'm not sure whether there was a blue option that year for the Aggressor. I have found any definite evidence that there was.

Timberline - 1992 model, frame made March '92. The model code confirms it is a Timberline frame, if it doesn't have decals.

 

[Mickeyspinn]

Thank you! All three of those give me new information and help with details from the frame numbers.

In return, information that may be of interest:

Outpost - This is a 1992, as they used Inferno Red for the Outpost that year, after using it for the Karakoram the year before. This is the earliest frame I have recorded so far built in Taiwan (Hodaka) rather than Japan (Toyo). That makes sense as it seems to have been a gradual move starting with the lower models. I'm fairly confident it was made in January 1992.

Aggressor - the frame was made in 1994, so is either a 1994 (first year for the Aggressor) or 1995 model. The alternative colour option in 1994 was Baja Blue, so that could be it, although the blue in your photo looks a little darker. I haven't seen a comprehensive 1995 catalogue yet, so I'm not sure whether there was a blue option that year for the Aggressor. I have found any definite evidence that there was.

Timberline - 1992 model, frame made March '92. The model code confirms it is a Timberline frame, if it doesn't have decals.

All sounds good!
There's more


^should be another 92 timberline!
^and another 92 timberline!



^talera...hmmm 93/94?

I'lll do another load later

 

[kingoffootball]

All sounds good!
There's more

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^should be another 92 timberline!
View attachment 665055^and another 92 timberline!

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^talera...hmmm 93/94?

I'lll do another load later

This is awesome, thank you. Both those Timberlines made January 1992. I assume the previous Timberline had the paint stripped. Was it the same colour as these originally or Daktari White?

The Talera is a 1993 model, frame made late 1992 at the Hodaka factory.

 

[Mickeyspinn]

This is awesome, thank you. Both those Timberlines made January 1992. I assume the previous Timberline had the paint stripped. Was it the same colour as these originally or Daktari White?

The Talera is a 1993 model, frame made late 1992 at the Hodaka factory.

This is awesome....I snap a pic you give me info
Yes stripped frame was the classic dark green timberline...

I have about another half dozen or so I'll do those later chap

 

[Mickeyspinn]

Forgot about this one....another timberline!
Think....93/94?

 

[kingoffootball]

Forgot about this one....another timberline!
Think....93/94?
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Is the paint original? The frame number would suggest it was made late 1992, if that second digit is a 2. However, the colour options for 1993 were Rainforest Green or Pearl Mist (blue/purple and black).

 

[Mickeyspinn]

Is the paint original? The frame number would suggest it was made late 1992, if that second digit is a 2. However, the colour options for 1993 were Rainforest Green or Pearl Mist (blue/purple and black).

It's like an off-white kinda pearlescent colour....groove tube aswell!
Second digit does look like a 2...just checked defo H2H0 !

 

[kingoffootball]

It's like an off-white kinda pearlescent colour....groove tube aswell!
Second digit does look like a 2...just checked defo H2H0 !

No black paint drips on it though? (Daktari White?) That was a paint scheme for 1992, but it seems like the frame was built too late for a 1992 model. Definitely made in 1992, which was the first year of the Groove Tube.

 

[Mickeyspinn]

No black paint drips on it though? (Daktari White?) That was a paint scheme for 1992, but it seems like the frame was built too late for a 1992 model. Definitely made in 1992, which was the first year of the Groove Tube.

Nope! Just a plain colour way ,it's got the later cheap looking rear dropout like that talera up there ^