The Epi reverse TB came out in 1997, they bragged about it at the time as their first rev TB. It superceded the previous non-rev TB, but that had only been around a few years then. In 1982, Epi to my knowledge had not yet focused on the lucrative market of visually reasonably close Gibson replicas. That was still the age of own models such as the Genesis and the scroll bass. An early eighties Epi TBird would be a rarity, let's see pics!!!
Uwe