Can Someone Confirm Original or Reproduction 1970 Packard Plug Wires?

[aawtech]

Originally Posted by Tidmack

Hi guys,

I just purchased a '70 RS Z28 and I'm curious if someone can tell me more about the plug wires currently on the car. I've purchased reproduction kits from Lectric Limited, but they never had orange boots. Mine are also dated 1Q-00, which certainly isn't the first quarter of 2000, right?

I took a peek at Charley's '70 Z28 survivor website, and his boots are also black. The last photo is of Charley's car, for reference.

Are mine original (over the counter?) or reproduction? Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

Jeff

Jeff, I work at AAW. Those is an over the counter Delco wire set made in the 1st qtr of 2000. The orange boots are all later replacements, not Assembly correct. The originals were black. Some of the HD wire sets from back in the day had green boots. Hope this helps.

Donny

[njsteve]

Apples and oranges but here is a photo of the original plug wires on my old 1973 SD455. Orange boots.

[Tidmack]

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

Originally Posted by njsteve

Apples and oranges but here is a photo of the original plug wires on my old 1973 SD455. Orange boots.

[Tidmack]

Originally Posted by aawtech

Jeff, I work at AAW. Those is an over the counter Delco wire set made in the 1st qtr of 2000. The orange boots are all later replacements, not Assembly correct. The originals were black. Some of the HD wire sets from back in the day had green boots. Hope this helps.

Donny

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