1967 Mustang wiring question?

I have a 1967 Mustang with a short circuit, and that's let me to discover a wire that I can't figure out: it's a red connector that powers the light in PRND floor shifter. The red plug in the harness under the dash has two wires connected to the same terminal: a blue/red and yellow/black. I don't see the yellow/black wire in any schematic in the Chilton's manual or the Mustang restoration handbook. It appears that this wire goes to a two-terminal plug behind the ashtray, possibly to the radio? The original radio was gone when we got the car 15 years ago. I don't know why it would have a different color when it's connected to the same OEM terminal as the blue/red wire. What was the function of this wire? At some point, the harness was cut into behind the gauges, and I have not yet removed the electrical tape to see what's under there, but I suspect that is where the short is occurring.

Lee2012-06-26T00:33:37Z

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It is probably for the radio tuner illumination so you could see what station you're on at night. That would be on the same circuit as the shifter backlight.

Those older wiring diagrams can be dicy. Sometimes they were changing and adding things faster than they could update the diagrams (mid year production changes, etc). Having wires that aren't on the diagram or are different colors is not that uncommon for cars of this era.