What's a good sounding and loud Horn, for a Hot Rod???

Living in Los Angeles, you sometimes need to get the attention of your fellow, drivers, that happen to be texting or talking on their cell phones, and not paying attention, on what's going on around them.
Reving up the engine and/or yelling profanities, out the window, doesnt always work.
I need a horn that mounts somewhere under the car (out of sight) that instills fear, and let's others know, I'm there.
All I found was some wimpy sounding, stuff at auto parts stores, but I'd like to use something old.
What 12 v horn is suited best???
Thanks Chris

 

1953 cadillac horns.
Was able to make a b*** pounding H2 get out of my way.
A bit large, but who knows.

 

http://www.wolo-mfg.com/train.htm

 

I was also going to say old Caddy

 

Yep. Actually just about any pre-nineties Cadillac horn. I have some out of a junkyard on my Jet, and they sound just like you want a horn to sound...And they're cheap, too.

 

I found the horns from a 54 Buick were much louder than the stock 57 Chevy horns.

 

Train horn...or so the guy at the Pileup thought.

 

Chrysler big car horns are quite loud too.

 

Trailer carrying one of those industrial hemi powered air-raid sirens would be both traditional and adequate.
If that's too pricey, almost any 6-volt horn from a big car will produce astounding sounds when fed 12 volts.

 

J C Whitney used to have some listed with high DBs, I had one that sounded like a fricken locomotive (3 horns in one).

 

My '61 Thunderbird had a great sounding horn(s?). Probably any '60s large American cars had that authoritive note.

None of this "meep-meep" ****.

 

Yepyep, my 92' Brougham has 4, compact enough to fit nicely and yet loud enough when in open air, and not in a fender, to crank the Db's.

 

A 6-Volt Oogah horn on 12 Volts. It also works well to scare kids off the porch on halloween.

Or go to the horn, gadget, and gismo guy that's vending at most of the SoCal shows and try em all out, several times.

 

Klaxon!

 

Electric air-horns are perfect. Small, loud, and chrome or painted

 

I used an old Klaxon-style pancake horn. It's a 6 volt, but it works REALLY well on 12 volts. And still has a "vintage" sound to it.

 

Old 6V GM horns always sound great on 12v!

 

My '38 Ford's horns were amazing on 12 volts.

I tend to favor early '90's Lincoln horns too. Cheap at the junkyard.

JH

 

my '53 Chevy's horns, although 6v, were more then loud enough and I kind of hated using them. I was afraid I was going to give someone a heart attack or something haha. They weren't huge if I remember correctly, but they weren't all that small either.

 

Chris, I have an old set of '39 Ford trumpets. Mounted one on the radiator support rods of my '32 roadster. Run the full 12 volts to it and as Bruce said it's loud. The FOGGER

 

My 54 had two 6V horns on it. I hooked one to 12V and it was surprisingly loud, Hooked up both and it made my ears ring.

 

My daughter had a VW Rabbit with the loudest horn, small stock horn with incredible volume. Should be dirt cheap in any boneyard......

 

the horns on my 53 F250 are nice and loud

 

Two different sets of horns with individual controls work great.

A VW bug horn - no relay required - is soft enough to be useful at the rod runs if necessary.

A foursome of approx mid-90's Cadillac horns.
They come stock, four to a car.
You'll want a relay with these, quite loud they are and sound very much like a diesel locomotive horn.

The VW horn goes under the hood on the 31 roadster and the Caddy horns under the trunk floor pointed back.


When you pop the Cadillac hood you won't see the horns since they're inside the inner fender panel.

You'll see a squarish hole so you can access the horns, 1-2 bolts releases them.
A pair on each side for a total of four.

They're roughly behind the battery and toward the front on the right, about the same place on the left.

Makes life easy to get them since the battery is almost always removed in junkyards.

Seems too that most guys don't see them since they're tucked away out of sight.


As noted, they sound like a diesel locomotive horn, but not as loud.

Not far from competing on the DB level though....

 

Harbor Fright has an extra loud horn, so they say.

 

'76 Peterbuilt Air Horn

 

Yeah, good thing that never got annoying. Not even after the thousandth time......

 

96 buick roadmaster

 

Remember the guy in the "Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers" comic who needed a more ***ertive horn for his VW?? As I recall, he got one that sounded "Like an 18 wheeler full of live pigs locking up the brakes at eighty". I have wanted one of those ever since.

 

I have a mid 80's or 90's Cadillac horn in mine. Loud and it sounds like a frieght train.