Thanks all for your comments. I'm pretty certain (from memory, as car is parked away at a friend's right now) that it has the "W" connectors between plugs, making the plugs the original stock in-series kind.

I think I will go with keeping it pretty close to stock original, although the car is no contendor for becoming a trailer-queen. It has some rust issues in the flooring which will mean non-stock welding eventually. It'll just be my eye-catching around-towner some day.

I will have to test the starter pull-switch next time I visit it. Perhaps I'll be lucky and discover that the PO that I bought it from just didn't know how later-model plugs worked and rigged up the wire to touch to battery that I'm using now.

Is there much advantage to having the plugs in parallel BTW, as BMZ transitioned to with later models? One advantage I CAN think of is that if one plug goes out, you still could potentially get the block warm enough for mild-cold starts. Do any others come to mind?

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