One issue you will run into is that the bike frame names didn't change to reflect the manufacturing change. IE, the Timberline name has been used up until very recently and encompasses a HUGE difference in quality, from bike shop good, to big box store bad. GT's website is nearly worthless in it's "archive" section, and getting back to the age you are referencing gets harder to locate pics and magazine scans (etc) of due to how the 'net was back then.