My next project? 1921 Packard Coupe

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Finally I have the cylinder head in place and this brings me to the question of spark plug leads. I want to replace the existing black plastic covered leads with the correct cotton covered hi-tension cable. The question is what colour? Yellow with a colour trace or black? Normally I would use the yellow but looking at photographs of other peoples engines they appear to have used black. Does anyone know what would have been used originally?

Finally I have the cylinder head in place and this brings me to the question of spark plug leads. I want to replace the existing black plastic covered leads with the correct cotton covered hi-tension cable. The question is what colour? Yellow with a colour trace or black? Normally I would use the yellow but looking at photographs of other peoples engines they appear to have used black. Does anyone know what would have been used originally? Also did the low tension wire from the distributor to the coil go through the conduit along with the hi-tension cables?

Bernie J.

Anything has to be an improvement on how it was when I first bought the car

6-4-2011

Just a quick aside.

I am excited to be able to say goodbye to the Land Rover Discovery I really could never feel "at home" in it. In its stead I am pleased to welcome back an old friend. Our 1997 Peugeot 405 SRi. This has been in the family since 1998 and has just returned from an extended loan to one of our sons. It is a truly great car and I am looking forward to using it as my daily driver of choice again. 

I don't know if you got this model Peugeot in the USA but this one is a 5 speed manual. Front wheel drive. It has typically French long legs and holds the road like a limpet. Super comfortable, air con and an electric (Glass) sunroof makes sunny day motoring a breeze.It has all the tricky bits of a Mi16 without the hassles.