Any Merckx consultants on the market?

Hello, I do know what this implies –> “serial quantity is 2X Y 3997 A (in a U form left to proper)” based mostly on studying Emerxil’s on-line data on Merckx serial numbers:

2 = 62 cm body (c to c seat tube size),
X = Columbus SLX tubing,
Y = worker code for the 12 months the EMC manufacturing unit employee completed making ready the body for portray,

3997 is the three,997th body within the collection of frames constructed through the years of A (see beneath),
A = years 1986-1988.

Based mostly on the 3997 it may very well be a 1987 body, as I believe 9999 frames the place made throughout anybody letter collection (eg A) for these years the letter represents.

Unsure if yours is a workforce color, however a Merckx body made for an expert workforce will normally have a special fashion of serial numbers/letters (see picture of yellow bike beneath) in comparison with the serial numbers/letters on these bought to most people. The yellow bike in picture (not mine) is a former Merckx skilled body from the Eighties that was then provided to the skilled workforce “Capri-Sonne” (identification “CS” within the body quantity).