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Horntones MP3 Automod Makes Jay-Z Proud

Yes! Finally, I can finally drive down the highway and rather than honking the normal horn at the asshole that cut me off, I can blare Jigga What by Jay-Z because that is obviously a more suitable horn noise. The Horntones is essentially an in-dash MP3 player hooked up to a traditional horn speaker. It includes presets for 10 MP3s and it supports up to 256 MB of MP3s. More »

12:00 PM on Thu Feb 28 2008
By Travis Hudson
859 views, 26 comments

found on ebay

For Safety's Sake, You Need This Monster Horn

You know those cheap electric "Ocean Liner" horns you can buy for like $29.95? We can only laugh disdainfully at such a horn of weakness! Even those so-called train horns that are all the rage these days are insufficient for those who really care about driving safety (and after reading Gilbert Shelton's Advanced Motoring Tips yesterday, we know what's needed for true safety). That's why we all need 46-pound Leslie Tyfon locomotive horns on our cars. Yes, a train horn from the 1930s, when locomotives ran on coal and train engineers needed about a billion decibels to get those damn Model Ts to stay off the tracks. Sure, you'll need quite the air compressor to feed this beast, and it might be a challenge to find a mounting location in most vehicles, but it will all be worth the effort, we promise! We find it telling that the seller uses a Budweiser can in the photos to indicate scale. [eBay]

1:30 PM on Fri Feb 8 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,192 views, 29 comments

Latest by elhigh: My son looked at it and said, "Mount it on a turret!" Oh, yes. And the next homeboy to pull up beside me with his dumbass stereo thumping and rattling his trunklid will get such a shock... more »

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Beep Beep Your A**: The Big Horn

You think you've been honked? You have not been honked, not by a long shot, until your slow-reacting ass is honked by the Big Horn. One full-pressure drag on its Kahlenberg S-6, the largest air horn in the world, and ship captains out at sea will start scanning their radar for icebergs. That's not to mention the Kahlenberg S-3, a submarine horn, the Gamewell Diaphone fog horn and the ten-inch Single Note Whistle from from a sugar beet factory in Paulding, Ohio, and a bunch of others. And whatever you do, don't call it a circus wagon. It's been known to kill for less than that. More »

1:25 PM on Fri Oct 21 2005
By Mike Spinelli
119 views, Comment