I got this on ebay last week. It's a 1981. Nice playing and nice sounding guitar that was designed by John Page who later became co-founder of of the Fender Custom shop. Unique feature of this guitar is the one piece aluminum pickguard/bridge.
Definitely an unusual bridge/pickguard setup. Now that you have had it a week, is it more sensitive to temperature related tuning fluctuations than a separate bridge/pickguard design?