Ask Mel Waldorf why these are not strictly "reissues" or better yet, go to his site at the LINKS page. He is correct, by the way. But, these Japanese models, especially from the '80s like this one here, are great guitars in the spirit of the 60's models. They were built by factories in Japan for Fender by technicians on equipment normally making high end guitars and they didn't suddenly slack off when producing the Fenders (apparently, that was left for Fender in the U.S. at the time). Our pink friend here was sitting in the back room doorway at Sam Ash in Hollywood. It was deemed unworthy to go on the sales floor. It was a trade-in and a mess. It was rusted and missing dials and covered in gunk from having stickers on it. If it were still a tree, it would have to be the little tree Charlie Brown brought to the Christmas pageant and I was suddenly Charlie Brown as I thought it was still a good guitar. I wanted to buy it, but they were sending it away. They called the store owner at home on a Sunday and I made an offer. Happily, it was my problem now as I left the store with it. The sticker gum came off, the rust was removed from the hardware, I found used plastic parts easily in Hollywood (just down the street), and it became what you see today. It has the real classic crunchy Fender sound and is a great Stratocaster--reissue or not (heck, pink or not!). Best part of the story: Weeks later I found this identical model year Japanese Stratocaster (no, not pink!) for three times what I paid.

Jetpack example of its sound: Rhythm guitar on Lunik 2