Right you are. I am sure the assembly plant could have had some orange boots used in assembly if there was a shortage... Could have happened.

This thread is about OP's wires tho...and the fact that your wires do not have 7MM stamped on them, indicates that they are a set of correct original 1973 wires.

No "apples or oranges" were harmed in the making of this reply.:beers:

...and in 1970 They weren't even trying to convert us to the metric system yet! I think I remember it happening in 1972, when I was in 5th grade.

This helps tremendously, thank you. I didn't realize over the counter Packard wires were still being date coded, or heck, even available into 2000. When I saw the 00 code, I thought maybe that was a generic year given to all over the counter replacements. I greatly appreciate your help, thank you!

Jeff

I had no idea a plug wire thread could be this interesting! Thank you for sharing this, I've never seen the orange boots on an original car. That's really cool.

Jeff