Originally Posted by
gearbasher
This is a TSD mark on an '83 brake bridge:
This is an earlier brake bridge:
And here is my '97 PRX:

My wife's 1981 has neither of those bridges, just a plain biconical bridge with diamond reinforcement plates at the stays. She bought it new in 1981, but maybe it sat unsold for a while? I think it is the color of the upper one in your post (we've always called it "BMW blue").