We are talking about the 1982/83 pickups, not anything from 1987. They looked identical to the US pickups, having the same staggered pole pieces and black fibre bobbins, but can easiliy identified by the black and white plastic wires vs. the cloth wires of the US pickups. Another difference was that the US pickups had the dark plain enamel wire while the non-US pickups had copper-coloured wire (from the colour my guess is rather poly than formvar)
I had them in a 1982/3 sunburst 57 JV Squier back then. This guitar was bought in Germany but did not have the US pickups sticker on the pickguard that normally the export models had, otherwise everything was the same. I do not remember if it had the export or domestic stamp in the neck pocket, probably the domestic. I have a CAR and pink JV Squier from 1983, these have the same pickups, well all the domestic ones had in fact.
Here are pictures from my metallic pink 1983 JV Squier:
Last edited: Feb 12, 2019