Smallest of Details: Rubber Boots on Ignition Wires

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Smallest of Details: Rubber Boots on Ignition Wires

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Are they the same as the rubber boots on the wire from the distributor to the coil?
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Yep
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Ignition wire bootie.JPG
Well, some of the time, they look like this...

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Yes, and the ones available from all the known names right now are not correct!
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Joris Koning wrote:Yes, and the ones available from all the known names right now are not correct!
Luckily I had a stash of nos originals. Sometimes things are easy, but too often they are not.
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what year / type car is this for ??
 

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My car is a 1962 model.
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