There is a pretty remarkable resource on Fuji bicycles here:
http://nihonmaru.blogspot.com/
I recently found it when trying to determine original model specs for one that we put under one of the MTB enthusiasts at work who is learning the attraction of road riding on lugged steel.
Charlie Young
Honey Brook, Pennsylvania USA
> One of the dangers of gaining a local rep. as an "old bike guy" is that
> people tend to give you rusty, middle of the road bikes. Many of these
> bikes have been neglected to the point where it hurts to look at the
> amount of easily preventable corrosion, but the opportunity to put things
> right is somehow therapeutic for both the restorer and the machine. No
> doubt this same sensation of healing causes some folks to restore old
> tractors and others to go into medicine. So much for philosophy...
>
> More to the point, the latest neglected orphan to come my way is a Fuji.
> Being, up to this point, more or less a Raleigh kinda guy I know v.
> little about asian bicycles. This bike while appearing to be well made
> is obviously nothing too lofty. Hopefully someone in the group can give
> me an education and perhaps steer me towards Fuji web sites.. I assume
> that this bike is on topic (the wheels are 27" rather than 700c) but I
> may be wrong about that. Apologies in advance if this bike besmirches
> the hallowed CR premisses.
>
> The particulars: this machine, finished in a coffee brown color, is
> marked "Team Fuji" on the down tube. The seat tube measures 24", center
> to the top of the lug--a bit big for me, but ridable. The seat tube
> bears a decal indicating that the frame is built of chrome molybdenum
> double butted steel tubing "331". The serial nr (on the under side of
> the bottom bracket is KE20175. The brakes are Diacom. The derailleurs
> are Suntour ARX. The stem and bars are Nitto. The head set is Tange
> "falcon". The seat post bolt is marked Sugino. The down tube has a
> sticker from "The Missing Link" bike shop in Berkeley, California--don't
> know if that provides a clue to date the bike or not. The stem
> interestingly bears a small oval sticker from Princeton Sports Travel, so
> this machine saw both coasts.
>
> Can anyone provide an approximate date for this machine?
>
> George Albaugh
> Bowie, Maryland
> USA