Dang this makes me wish I had bought a G kit. Weren't the barrelled kits some of the earliest kits available?
Yes, the "G" kits were almost completely imported barreled. It wasn't until later, after the Bush barrel ban, the kits had to have cut barrels. That ban was just pain in the butt for us AK builders.
Yep, they came in by the container load, with OG barrels but sans receiver. Receivers were torched per AFT requirements. I still have a few G kits with buttstocks attached to jagged rear trunnion stubs in a parts bin.
It's funny that when those were coming in, I had plenty of discretionary income. I didn't start getting into aks until after they got relatively expensive, around 2015.