AMT Pacemakers Posted May 31, 2012 Posted May 31, 2012 Just wondering when the first yellow plug wires came out.. the first i remember were back in 1976, but I'm sure it was before that. Are any other colors... Robert
MAGNUM4342 Posted May 31, 2012 Posted May 31, 2012 Not sure when they came out, but I had a 1972 Charger that had orange plug wires and a 1978 Dodge Magnum that had blue ones.
charlie8575 Posted May 31, 2012 Posted May 31, 2012 I've seen pictures of the old cotton-covered wires that were yellow with black stripes. No idea who made them, though. I know Kanter Auto Products offers those as part of a tune-up kit for pre-1950 cars, and I would imagine that the design has some basis in historical accuracy. Charlie Larkin
roadhawg Posted May 31, 2012 Posted May 31, 2012 I think Accel, the company that made the wires you're probably thinking about, started around 1970.
sjordan2 Posted May 31, 2012 Posted May 31, 2012 I invite Art Anderson to chime in here, but yellow plug wires go back to the earliest days of automobiles when insulation was made of cloth fabric.
Foxer Posted May 31, 2012 Posted May 31, 2012 Must have been colored wires before '76. I had a '77 Porsche 924 that had one of the first Callaway turbos on it and it could ONLY use red (high temperature) wires on it. The red hot turbo was so close to the wires even cheaper red wires would melt. I know this is more than just color for show, but ..
Dave Pye Posted June 1, 2012 Posted June 1, 2012 (edited) If the process of elimination helps, I see no referrences to colored wires in my 1971 Gratiot Auto Supply or Honest (Hisself) Charlie's catalogs. "Honest ain't mad, he's just being grilled!" -- From a catalog from Hisself. Edited June 1, 2012 by Dave Pye
AMT Pacemakers Posted June 3, 2012 Author Posted June 3, 2012 Thanks everyone, I found some color pics of a 32 coupe with a hemi that had red wires, from 1957, and they were not the cloth type. which works for what I' building. Thanks Robert
Greg Myers Posted June 3, 2012 Posted June 3, 2012 Thanks everyone, I found some color pics of a 32 coupe with a hemi that had red wires, from 1957, and they were not the cloth type. which works for what I' building. Thanks Robert Are you going to share that picture with us ?
AMT Pacemakers Posted June 3, 2012 Author Posted June 3, 2012 Sorry, its in a magazine and I have no way of scanning.. Robert
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