Some necks were one-pieced(no fingerboard). Necks were maple on maple with Schaller or Gotoh styled tuners that were unmarked. No doubt the face mounted Spl/Std bodies were actually Imp/cust bodies as the jack hole is located exactly in the same place as a 2nd tone knob would be. The Spec/Std ones were either on the face or the side. The input jacks on the Imp/Cust were side mounted. the Special/ Standard had a single hum and 1 vol/1 tone control and a 3 way phase switch. The Imperial/Custom had 2 hums and 1 vol/2 tone controls as well as a 3 way switch. The only difference being the pickups and the bridge options.

For all practical purposes here, the Imperial and the Custom as well as the Special and Standard were the same guitars. There were 4 types, the Imperial(the very first), Special, Standard and Custom. The first production Pacers had the Strat styled bodies. Interestingly enough, these prototypes did not have tremelos but rather had a Gibson style bridge and stop tail piece. The necks were the standard Strat headed necks found on early Pacers with then new 'Kramer' logo and 'Pacer Series' below that (note: the 'Patent Pending' was not on the earlier models of any Pacer). It should be noted that the very first prototypes outfitted with this neck were not Strat-style bodies at all! But in fact were bodies based on the 450G body shape from the aluminum neck era. The first necks were the Strat-copy headstocked necks. The first year for the Kramer Pacer was 1981.

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