The vast majority of the P specials had maple boards with their painted headstocks, which I confess to never liking. I have since their heyday seen several rosewood board variants. Those are nifty. I have seen a very few with the Fender Brass-Mass Claw bridge, which is something else entirely. The all Walnut is really nice.
One fun aspect of them is that you can spot a legit 80s regular P bass by the extra P-Bass Special routing off the control routing that they pretty much all had in that period.
