Sometimes, one brand of plug catches a bad rap for fouling while the other brand runs fine. What is typically the case, is that the cross-conversion is not exactly the same heat range, but rather "close". Often times, a over-rich jetting situation adds to the situation, and the mis-fortunate cross-coverted plug is labeled as "junk, when in fact, the plug is too cold for the application. Snowmobilers seem to have a way of falling victim to this senario.
Smooth Sail,
Those Gold Palladium plugs were Champion's fine wire type plug back in the 70's, or at least that's the last time I've seen them. Good plugs BTW, I had a pair in a 1971 Polaris snowmobile which lasted the entire snow season, which was totally unbelieveable back in those old breaker-points days.