It's SN G00584, and Dale described it to me as a "salesman's sample".
It was a real early one, never pulled the neck on it but if you know the instruments it's easy to see. It came from the so-called "showroom" behind Dale's office so I never felt the need to investigate further. Besides, this was well before there was even a notion of "leo era" G&L's, and I bought it cause it was a cool early G&L, didn't think too hard. I got that the cashflow was important to Dale -- those were lean days for G&L, and he seemed grateful whenever I'd buy something in those years.
The paint on this guitar is pretty unusual - I've only seen one other G&L with that particular paint, and it was on a L-1000 bass I used to own, SN B00502. That one is in the gallery here, but when the instruments were side by side it was hard not to agree that they were painted on the same day -- the finish has a lot of orange peel in it, and they were identically weird.
Here's a picture of the bridge:
Used to love visiting Dale and that showroom; I bought a lot of guitars for friends from him and always enjoyed hearing stories about the business.
Best,
~j