Can Someone Confirm Original or Reproduction 1970 Packard Plug Wires?

[70 copo]

Originally Posted by njsteve

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

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.

[njsteve]

...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.

[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

[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.