James wrote: > Hey Lindsey, the distributor in my 59 is black, just unscrewed the > vacuum advance and its black under there as well. Maybe throughout > time, climates, chemicles yours had faded and the blue/purple pigments > in the black paint are all that remain? > Jim > 300E > --- In Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Lindsey Fuller <yesdnil@...> wrote: >> Got out to the car today. Distributor part # IBS-4010 & number > 1842811 >> matches the book we have. We took off everything except the chrysler >> plate & it is all purple underneath. Seems unusual that someone would > go >> to all the trouble of removing everything, including the chrysler > plate, >> to paint it the wrong colour. Perhaps this falls into the category of >> Chrysler did a lot of different things over the course of production? I might hazard a suggestion that maybe at some point in time a maintenance action caused the original distributor to have been replaced. -- Paul Holmgren Mine: 2 57 300-C's in Indy Hers: 05 PT GT R/T HO Hoosier Corps L#6 ------------------------------------ To send a message to this group, send an email to: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For list server instructions, go to http://www.chrysler300club.com/yahoolist/inst.htm For archives go to http://www.forwardlook.net/300-archive/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chrysler300/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chrysler300/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:Chrysler300-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:Chrysler300-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Chrysler300-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/