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Hot Rods 32 Ford whats mounted on the headlight bar

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  1. hotrodnomader
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    I ran across this old picture of my grandfather. Simply because in 1941 he took a picture standing beside a completely different car. I'm ***uming this picture would have been taken in the late 1930's. Just wondering ideas of what is mounted on the headlight bar ?
     

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  2. woodiewagon46
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    Looks like horns to me.
     
  3. ct1932ford
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    A pair of horns! Looks like he wanted people to get out of his way!:eek::p
     
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  4. HOTRODPRIMER
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    Appears to be 2 horns instead of the factory installed V8 in the middle of the headlight bar if the car was 8 cylinder. HRP

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    Flat Motorcycle style horns
     
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  7. hotrodnomader
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    okay, thanks
     
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  8. twenty8
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    What's on the headlight bar? I see two headlights, two horns, and half a grandpa.......:)
     
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  9. lothiandon1940
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    We called those pancake horns. 757399371.jpg
     
  10. lothiandon1940
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    If you hit the "full image" ****on you can avoid thumbnails.:)
     
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  11. lothiandon1940
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    Horns likely off of a H-D of the era.
     
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  12. HOTRODPRIMER
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    I found this horn at a swap meet, it was originally chrome plated but was rusty and peeling, it is most likely a reproduction of a HD or Indian, I took it apart and sand blasted it, painted it black and used it on my old beater, works great and mounted it on the firewall, HRP

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  13. hotrodnomader
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    The original picture is about 2" by 3", I never figured out how to enlarge it like that. You can really see it well with the picture being so large. Thanks
     

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