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@Dutch_Cheese
Nice bike, despite the saddle position (nose up).
Definately a repaired / resprayed one.
First AA-Super was made in 1984. I had one of these, when I joined the company.
I doubt if AA-Super was commercially available before 1985. Pretty sure it wasn't. '83 is impossible. It's even not a prototype or pre-production model, because these didn't have pantoed fork crowns or semi-vertical dropouts. These parts were only used for the series production, not earlier.
Letter type on the picture is a couple of years later. Don't recall exactly which year, but it was the 1st result of the co-operation with industrial designer Peter van der Veer.
Same goes for pantographed seat clamp and the cable routing. The 1st few years, Gazelle used a flush design. The later ones had the "arrow / triangle" design at the sides. Even the quite unique wishbone was replaced by regular twin seat stays.
Due to all the trouble with the fixation of the wishbone and the seat post clamp, quite some AA-Supers were repaired under warranty at Gazelle at got a new paintjob incl. decals. This is certainly one of those.
Personally I did't do the repairs. I just co-ordinated the stuff a bit. My brazing skills were too poor. Repairing frames is a highly qualified job. In those days, the expert was a man called "De Kater". A nice, but a bit odd/eccentric person. Just a few teeth left, bachelor, stubborn, wearing a winter coat in the middle of the summer, hermit- kind of guy... Liked him a lot.