BMXmuseum.com Bikes / Huffy / 2000 Huffy TL-88

The year is a guess based on several queries here and elswhere and previous owners' memories: "I've had it about 5 years and my brother had it for about 5 years and some dude in LA gave it to him." There is NO SERIAL NUMBER on the bike. I have gone over it, others have gone over it, shop guys have gone over it--every nook and cranny, I stripped the paint off: No serial number. And it has NOT been ground off. Every other TL-88 it is on the BB. It was gloss black with no stickers and had about $500 worth of parts on it--all used for other projects. No one wants it, I hate giving it away, and don't have the heart to sell it, so it just hangs here as a momento to BMX history ha ha. Some day I'll get real bored and call Huffy maybe. I just don't understand how a company that large could let a frame slip out with no ser#. Brazed brake cable hook-up and seat-tube piercing. Huffy logo on both sides of each drop and rear of top-tube cantelever. Rotor-tab on head welded on crooked. Welding's kinda irregular--weird bulges here and there... And the paint was factory--it DID NOT come off easily.  Prototype?