Train horn in a Car > Priceless!

[chefjavier]

Check this video on the new trends using train horn in your car.

 

http://www.hornblasters.com/video.php?pic=39

 

[scottychaos]

God I hope thats illegal and these morons get arested and have their toys taken away..

what absolute idiots..these people are a menace.

Scot 

[silicon212]

It's not a 'new' trend, and this subject has been discussed to death here.

[Modelcar]

......Nothing new here...{loud horns}....I know of and saw {many times}, a set of 30" Buel air horns on a 1948 Ford {woody}, convertible.  Only he knew how to act with them....They were mainly for show, mounted right on top of the front fenders.  Chrome.

[Semper Vaporo]

I wanna great BIG STEAM WHISTLE!

 

[CShaveRR]

A perfect illustration of disturbing the peace.  Most law enforcement officers would probably look upon it as such.

[Modelcar]

.....Like anything else, if used improperly...law inforcement should take care of it.  Quickly.

[chefjavier]

As you notice on the video they have a website and videos showing their merchandise.

[scottychaos]

As you notice on the video they have a website and videos showing their merchandise.

 

 

Its probably legal to sell them, even if its not legal to use them.

There are plenty of stores that sell bongs, for smoking of marihuana, right out in the open in a public store! selling them is fine and legal...the store has no say on how the product is USED once its bought! They can say they are sold for "decorative purposes only" or some such nonsense.. These horns probably are sold in a similar manner..

 Scot 

[locomutt]

As you notice on the video they have a website and videos showing their merchandise.

It may be "Legal" to purchase them, but it Does Not make it Legal to use in that respect. 

Ditto to what Carl, Quentin and scottychaos said. 

[Anonymous]

Blow one of those next to my rig and the little car will get into a bit of trouble under my wheels.

I dont mind them on big trucks because they know where NOT to shoot them and they have ability to generate the required air.

[tree68]

There are several groups of airhorn aficionados, some of whom have one or more sets of horns plainly mounted on their vehicles (at least one has a bell as well).  But they're for show and tell (and some of them buy, sell and repair horns), not blasting pedestrians out of their way, as these yahoos seem to be most interested in doing....

[carnej1]

 A buddy of mine has a coworker who installed one of these in his SUV. He had to install an air compressor and associated auxiliary equipment. The guy is not a railfan, he's a horse's @$#. In other words he uses the horn to mess with people (startling folks on bicycles, pedestrians under bridges, etc.). I'm fairly sure (I'm going to ask another friend who's a local cop) that this isn't legal in the State we live in so hopefully the long arm of the law catches up with the guy. In a way he's ruining it for everybody because I think someone having one of these and not abusing it would be kind of cool. 

 I've also heard that there has been a black market in stolen locomotive horns in recent years because truckers like to use them on their rigs.

[Semper Vaporo]

There are several groups of airhorn aficionados, some of whom have one or more sets of horns plainly mounted on their vehicles (at least one has a bell as well).  But they're for show and tell (and some of them buy, sell and repair horns), not blasting pedestrians out of their way, as these yahoos seem to be most interested in doing....

If I had one of them thar "Hummers" I'd most certainly mount a BIG brass bell on it!

Then I'd for sure have me a real honest ta goodness;

 

 "Hummer Dinger"!

 

 

 

 

 

 

(HEY now!  Watch yer language!)

 

[Anonymous]

Train horns only belong on locomotives. The truckers in my area love em. Some much in fact that every time I'm in the middle of a switch move they always seem to be passing by and when they do they lay on their train horn. I don't startle easy but when I'm in between cars and I hear a train horn that scares the hell out of me. It's not cute it's annoying, and anyone caught doing that should be fined and or jailed.

[Mr_Ash]

I have an electric air horn in my car (like Ambulances use) and its not illegal, I hardly ever use it though unless I have to and even then im not laying on it annoying people. I have a toggle switch mounted on my center console so I can flip a switch and use the normal POS OEM horn insted if I want to but nobody pays any attention to normal auto horns so theres really no point

[caldreamer]

A friend of mine, many rears ago had a pickup truck with a REAL dieel air horn under he hood.  He had box in the bed behind the cab with a big air compressor on one side and the air tank on the other.  Gene blew it at a guy in an MG who would not move after the light changed.  He must have jumped 10 feet STREIGHT UP.  I still laugh about it after all these years.

 

 

[RudyRockvilleMD]

To those of you who suggested that using a train horn in a car should be illegal, it is. Some noise ordinances provide for the prosecution for noise disturbances. A noise disturbance is defined as any noise that is unpleasant, annoying, offensive, obnoxious, unusuaL for the location where it is produced or heard, or the time of day.  

 

[Mr_Ash]

Thankyou Mr. Dictionary

Unless the Police hear you honk the horn and happen to have a decibel meter in there trunk chances are it wont hold up in court

[Anonymous]

I was with my family in Denver over Thanksgiving visiting my sister and brother in law.  We ended up visiting the local mall, and it took a long time to find a parking spot.   Needless to say not everyone was happy, including a gentleman driving a 1980's Porsche.  He proceeded to blow an air horn an hold it out the side of his window several times.  There was a car blocking him from getting into another lane in the parking lot.  I don't think my brother in law, and dad and me have ever laughed that hard.  We actually saw him in the department store and my brother in law started chatting away with him like he does with everyone. Of course he wanted to know about the Porsche and we learned all about it.  It turns out his horn worked perfectly fine, but he thought people wouldn't respond to the regular horn.  He even got out of his car with his air horn, right before the blocking car moved.  I was wondering how close he would get to the car before he would blow the air horn. 

[Mr_Ash]

ROFLMAO! What a tool!

Hand held air horns are less attention getting than auto horns... Its not like they sound like a truck or a train... The guy infront of him was probly to busy laughing it up  "Look at this tool, thinks hes at a basketball game!"

[cpbloom]

I supposes it was a little funny ........ that is until they blew it on the guy with crutches.

 

Now it's not funny at all.

[tree68]

ROFLMAO! What a tool!

Hand held air horns are less attention getting than auto horns... Its not like they sound like a truck or a train... The guy infront of him was probly to busy laughing it up  "Look at this tool, thinks hes at a basketball game!"

I dunno - some of those expensive little cars seem to have some pretty chintzy horns. 

I still have the electronic siren in my truck (from my tenure as a fire chief) - but only the airhorn part is currently hooked up.  It gets used more for saying "Hi" than anything else, and that's not too often.

[TimChgo9]

A few years ago, when the UP did there steam excursion that came through Elmhurst, and the Western Suburbs, there was a guy who had those horns mounted on his pickup, and he went down the street where everyone had gathered to shoot photos, blowing his stupid horn.

He was obnoxious about the whole thing...

I believe the horns can be outlawed, but, I think it is up to each municipality, depending on their noise ordinances. 

[caldreamer]

The deisel air horn in Gene's truck was illegal under California law.  He got it from a guy we knew who worked for the SP.  I do not know what the decibal rating was, but you could hear it for miles.   

[vsmith]

Dealing with some of the distracted cellphone bla-blaing complete retarded morons behind the wheels I have to deal with here, I have considered popping an airhorn like one of these under my cars hood. I hate to say it but there is a sizable percentage of drivers out there who just dont give a when it comes to courtious, or hell, even safe driving, its for these complete nincompoop bozos in their a$$master SUVs that I would love to that final option of firing off a high decible freight train notice of contempt at them. I just really dont think anything else short of a bullet hitting their rear view mirror would be capable of registering thru the lump of concrete they use for skulls that they have done something idiotic while driving.

[CNW 6000]

In the case of that SP horn I'd say at least 10 db...

The OPD had a little 'crackdown' on musical/non OEM horns a couple of years back after some HS kids created their own siren and pulled people over.  It must have been funny...until they pulled over an unmarked cruiser.  One is still in jail.

[rockymidlandrr]

Now what is the legality of a PA horn stuck up under the hood attached to a CB.  A bunch of my friends have one, including me, and some are LOUD.  We arent those jerks yall were talking about, we rarely use the PA and when we do it is usually just us on private property.

[tree68]

Local regulations notwithstanding - they're likely legal, as long as you don't use them improperly (harassment is harassment whether you use a PA or not).  Noise ordinances might apply as well.  I'd bet the amp power isn't any more than 5 watts.  In comparison, most emergency vehicle PA's are 100 watts...

[Anonymous]

I believe it's illegal in Alabama- something about using a warning signal device for a use other than it's original intent.  The traffic citation also covers illegal use of sirens and lights, too.