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Can't believe there's no answer for this yet.

All others are pretty obvious, but cr. (ex. "NAT. BLK CR. TR.") could stand for cream but are there any other ideas? Nat. (or natural) is obviously some kind of white (correct?), but my old wire can't be that tan colored due to aging alone. So, is natural a white or a cream or a tanish white, or something else?

I think natural means un-dyed, so what color was the cloth un-dyed?

GMCdp,

I can't take any credit for this info other than I was interested and did some searching. As your rig seems to be a GMC, I went to their site and dug around.

This is what I think I discovered. The 'cr' you are searching for isn't a color, but a tracer in a 'X angle'...a 'cross tracer' hence the 'cr'.

A hypothetical wire color would be; Nat.blk cr tr. This would translate to a natural color wire with a black cross tracer.

Does this sound like it might be the straight skinny. Take a look at the GMC site and I have enclosed a link that's interesting too.

http://www.riwire.com/Catalogs/sup/pages/wire.htm


Stuart

Man, I was hoping no one replied to this, yet. Last night I earned the blonde of the day award when I started taking apart my gauge cluster and noticed a cross traced wire...

cr. definately stands for cross. Thanks, though, automarc.

Any ideas out there about what color "natural" is?

Google cloth covered wire. If you spend some time looking at the places that sell vintage wire they list all the abreviations. I love the look of the lacquer coated cloth wire, but the cost was out of my price range for a non all original restoration.