[Ken/Alabama]

Dick, I went through this on my 39 Zephyr. I bought two new cables that were supposed to fit my Zephyr but didn't come close to fitting the dash. I'm sure the Ford cable is the same as used on the Zephyrs just may be shorter. I wound up using the housing and had the wire cable that was plenty long . You'll want to keep the shaft that the knob is attached to and carefully cut off any existing wire and drill a hole not much larger that the wire into the end of the shaft to accept the new wire then you can solder or crimp the end of the shaft to hold it in place. Then feed it back into the original housing. On the carb end I cut one of the socket ends off of a accelerator rod and drilled it to accept the wire end and crimped it. It was some work it turned out OK.