Firing order

My first car was a 57 Chev 265 Hell for a long time I didn't know there WAS a "correct" no1 wire position. This was 66-68, when you pulled into a service station and actually got "service." One day one of the jocks told me, "that thing can't run, the timing is off. The wires are all wrong". Drove in it!!!! Drove it out!!!