Last friday the wife decided she was going to go with me when I went to get some body work supplies for my 53 chevy. She kept driving me crazy wanting to stop at every yard sale we passed by and of course I wanted to get home and work on my Chevy. I decided to humor her and stop at some on the way home and check out what I found for a quarter. A Falcon airhorn not sure the year but I know Falcon started up in 1953 it still works and blast your ear drums out. I have checked around and found one other for 45.00. I am gonna keep mine and put it in the 53.
I hooked up my 140 psi air compressor to some 10 dollar harbor freight air horns before. Those things will wake up the neighborhood with some pressure behind them! haha. Great find. I gotta see about getting some off a semi truck one of these days.
it only take like 10-12 psi to operate it. But the more you give it the louder it gets. I tested it at 120psi off the compressor at home and the nieghbors were all looking around really high pitched. I read the owner of Falcon lost a friend in a fire in 1950 and was originally building the horns for fire alarms before boats and automobiles.
You find a lot of cool stuff at garage sales if you hit enough. I don't mind going to them. Last week I found a superior steering wheel (black w/3chrome spokes with holes) and a whole box of adapter parts for $15.
Yard sales and estate sales are the best. I bought an anchor with the foundry name and 1939 stamped on it for 5.00. It looks cool holding the Galaxie in place.
Join the club---I found one quite similar to yours at an antique shop on their ten cent table. I love the automotively ignorant!
Shouldn't be too tough to find, as a lot of truckers (at least around here) seem to be upgrading to the ones made for LOCOMOTIVES... Really, how F*%&ing loud does it need to be...? Nice score, anyway.
So what is the moral of the story....Take the wife with you when going to the autosupply store .Or after you leave the autopaint store you only have a quarter .....
NO just tired of spending every dime at a paint store .But I do miss Rocky and Bullwinkle Life was real simple back then........................
I have an eight mile horn on top of my shop that I honk every once in a while, the next day at the mail boxes the neighborhood BS is all about the train last night and didn't know there were tracks that close. I've made some of my best automotive scores at yard sales, bypass the jars and bottles and go for the back yard and shed, they are already in sell mode or they wouldn't be having a sale.
That's a boat horn isn't it? Hand held, screws onto a can you can get at the hardware store. It's not a wolf whistle.
Loud enough that the asshole in the Honda who just cut you off shits his pants when he hears it. There's not a day that goes by that I drive somewhere that I couldn't use a horn that loud.
A friend of mine had a train horn on his chevy pickup, air supplied from his bag set up. There is no where you can buy that kind of fun. I cant have one, I would be in jail.
Years ago, I hac a highrider Ford 4x4 with marker lights on the cab, and air horns on the roof. Coming home from work one night, I was passing a bar, and a drunk pulled out in front of me. I was looking for it, so no problem, I ran right up to his rear bumper, and hit the brights, and the air horn at the same time! He looked back, and drove off the road into a golf course. I just kept going.
ha i kick myself in the ass for not buying a 1930's coup up the street that was complete and came with a roadster body also. a guy ended up picking all of it up for $200
I have a basket of those things I took out of my grandparents house during its renovation. They were used as a general purpose alarm with copper tubing running from quart sized air tanks with the "on switch" to the horns mounted on the outside of the house. I mounted one in my car when I was 15. I mounted the horn behind the grille and ran the copper air line back to the air tank I mounted between the seats.
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