i just checked my blue fxr3 ..sticker. built 07 99.
My frame sticker [tangerine FXR4] states build date to be 11-99
..since they shut down in july to switch over for new model year. between hd holding these for release.if so, and dealers hiding em from us till a certain date..it don't surprise me. when these cvo's were released , 99 was sure busy year for hd. 2 different models in 4 colors of cvo's.
Don't forget gregg's FXR4 from November of '99. That makes all 3 models of CVO FXR's in (probably) all six colors built in 1999. The more I think about it, it might make sense. HD might have built all the CVO FXR's in one run. These bikes certainly must have been simpler to assemble than say, the baggers that came later. With no paint problems (Remember those on the baggers? What year?) to slow them down, familiar EVO motors and transmissions, simple electronics, and the total number of CVO FXR's at 2565, they might have built all of them to get them out of the way and to "warm up" the newly established CVO line.
For that matter, I wonder if there are any 1999 FXR2's with a date label of 1998 on them? HD may have gotten a head start.