[dznutz]

Yes with the Mopars, the alternator ran through the bulkhead connector into the dash ammeter and back out through the bulkhead to the relay then battery, the ammeter itself rarely fails, usually the bulkhead connectors get corroded and old wiring tended to fry. When you bypass the ammeter with a shunt wire you could still burn the car down without adding fusible links.

With all of their quirks, I still prefer the old cars over the new.

[Dr. Sivana]

old wiring tended to fry

The nice part was that there was less of the old wiring. My 1966 Dart with no power steering and no power brakes had four or five fuses. (there might have been a fusible link or two under the hood, and maybe a single circuit breaker).

On my wife's '73 Dart I installed some sweet Hella headlamps, with relays and new wiring that was doing the heavy lifting for the current.