Well, it is a 1983 Canadian market serial number, but that doesn't mean it is a 1983 model. Conceivably it could be a 1984 model manufactured in late 1983. Most of the Asian manufacturers started building the next year's models in the last quarter of the year. This allowed for inventory build-up, shipping and distribution. Certainly, almost nothing matchs the 1983 Canadian catalogue; not the colors, not the tubing, not the derailleurs. Unfortunately, we don't have a 1984 Canadian catalogue and no other 1984 Landau have surfaced. The other possibility is that they changed the specs after the catalogue came out, but that scenario is hard to imagine, given the extent of thedifferences. Spec changes are usually fairly minor. Also, an employee may have grabbed the wrong stamp for the year, but again this would be a relatively small probability.

The component date codes may provide further insight. Refer to the components page of the Vintage-Trek website on how to location and decypher the codes. If the codes are from the last half of 1983, that would point towards it being a 1984 model manufactured in late 1983.