1973 loose wires behind the dash Options

[HalfMoon]

Imagine my dismay when today I decided to open the dash (I was trouble shooting a fuel gauge not working-easy fix, PO had cut the wires at the tank for some reason), discovering a huge amount of loose wires. The PO had installed a completly different tach so I'm hoping alot of these wires (11) had a purpose for being disconnected. Vain hope most likely...
I did notice the brake warning light stays on all the time...and of course nothing else works (except the fuel gauge that I just hooked back up). The car is a v-8 converted teener so alot of stuff may be disconnected for that reason as well.
The real problem is that I'm VERY color blind. I can read a schematic reasonably well if I know what color wires I'm looking at on the car, which brings us to the reason for this post!
Could someone help me identify the loose wires I've numbered in the enclosed photograph? What color corresponds to the numbered wires? With that data I should be able to figure out what was supposed to go where and assimilate if it was disconnected for purpose.
Wiring and color blindness can be a serious challenge, so any help is appreciated :-)
David
Oh and btw, if you click on the image and then click again you'll get a very close view

[Dave_Darling]

Note that the wires numbered 9, 10, and 11 are add-ons by some previous owner or previous mechanic. They have blue stripes around the wire, rather than a blue tracer painted along the wire. Painting rings around the wire is easier to do for most of us than the factory-style line along the wire.

Since someone did take the trouble to paint blue on those wires, it is very highly likely that they are connected to the gauge illumination circuit.

--DD

[HalfMoon]

Note that the wires numbered 9, 10, and 11 are add-ons by some previous owner or previous mechanic. They have blue stripes around the wire, rather than a blue tracer painted along the wire. Painting rings around the wire is easier to do for most of us than the factory-style line along the wire.

Since someone did take the trouble to paint blue on those wires, it is very highly likely that they are connected to the gauge illumination circuit.

--DD

Oh that's very informative! I had no idea. The gauge cluster is unlit and I had thought (according to Jeff's handy chart for a 1974) that these were all for illumination. Now I'm not so sure....but easy enough to test when I go out to the garage today.
Thanks DD