What are Gen1 and Gen2 for Carbon?

I thought the gen1 boards were the early forward mounted motor boards, gen2 was single rear mounted motor and GT were the 2rd gen boards.

Is there any consensus about this? Does it really matter?

It does seem odd that the first carbon board would be a gen2, but maybe that's why they're called carbon and carbon GT?

There's a very good chance I haven't slept enough, and an equal chance that I'm overthinking it. . .

 

I have a friend with perhaps what could be a Gen1 Carbon. It had (he sold recently) different grip tape design (Still genuine Evolve), the centre ridge on top may have been more pronounced? and the heatsink was black vs silver on my gen 2.
Ill see if i can find some pics to compare

 

Generally, it goes like this (anyone, feel free to chime in with corrections):

• Gen1 (Bamboo), two models = pintail and snubnose (these are the forward facing motor models).
• Gen2 (Bamboo) = longboard (single rear facing motor).
• Original Carbon = longboard with kicktail (single rear facing motor) - These are technically what you could call "Gen1 Carbon", but because they run Gen2 running gear, they are commonly referred to as "Gen2", even though they are actually the first carbon model. This also had slight updates throughout its production run, as Andy alluded to.
• GT (Carbon) = longboard w dual rear facing motors
• GT (Bamboo) = longboard w dual rear facing motors
• New "commuter/travel/budget" model (Bamboo) to be launched on Fri 14/4/17 - single GT motor configuration.