Many thanks Jeff - great information as always. A couple of questions to clarify your reply further:
1) when you say the engine ID tag should be vertically located on the coil bracket, can you explain what you mean? My coil sits vertically in the round band clamp that bolts on to the front of the passenger side head, which is the correct placement from everything I have seen. Unless the tag is smaller than I was thinking, I thought it would go horizontally on the front of the round clamp the coil sits in. By vertically located do you just mean that the tag is such that the numbers are right side up as placed on the coil bracket or ?
2) re: your answer to #5, I think I know where the coil wire tag goes from another picture of a car that was supposedly concourse restored, and I read that the spark plug tags go on the front most wire on either side, but not sure where on the wire, or if that guidance was correct. Can you verify correct placement of these tags or suggest where I could confirm that?
Thanks as well for letting me know about Charles. I actually did connect with him a year or so ago after joining the SAAC forum, searching on car numbers close to mine and sending him a PM.