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packards1 wrote:
My original 56 400 had the earlier spark plug wire brackets which I upgraded to the newer ones. My car was about half way through the production run, so either type would be correct for early in the run cars. Also the rain gutter was to protect the pushbutton wiring and relays, if column shift Ultramatic is on the car the wiring and rain gutter would not be there.
Perhaps what I wrote is misunderstood here.
RE: the spark plug wire looms... Yes, I have owned several 1956 Packards that had the older-style spark plug wire looms. Didn't say these were not legitimate items. Only mentioned that this design was deleted. Dealers upgraded/retrofitted any cars that were brought in and found to have a mis-fire or shorting problem (which is what the updated looms were supposed to rectify in the first place). Somewhere in my records I have a factory service bulletin. L.A.'s Frost & French dealership did retrofits and so did Earle C. Anthony. Others did too. And the factory changed them over. So yes, either style can be legit, but if I were restoring a car I certainly would want to put the most up-to-date Packard spec stuff under the hood. But this is merely a personal preference I guess.
RE: the pushbuttons, wire harness, rain trough, etc... Again... already pointed out that this car appears to
not be equipped with pushbuttons (actually it has a brand-X transmission), so these items would obviously not be equipped. Just mentioned the moisture guard as part of the pushbutton array that normally would be on the driver's side splash apron...
IF the car came with pushbuttons. My own Scottish Heather/Dover White 1956 Four Hundred (I'm 2nd owner) came ordered new from a Packard dealer in SoCal
without pushbuttons, so I am very intimately familiar with this fact. Yes.
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