LAN networks.Fiber optic control lines.
11 computers and systems on top of systems
to monitor more electronic systems. Alot of
older repairmen are retiring. The dealers
can’t even fix some cars…..
10
Because of all the crap they put on vehicles that many don’t want or need.
The last good vehicle I had was my 98 Ford F150. Rubber floors, hand crank windows and manual locks, A/C, cruise control, radio and 5 spd manual with 16 inch wheels.
Everything I needed.
Can’t buy that vehicle anymore.
19
I once wired the horn on my friends truck into his brake light circuit.
16
“How does that even make God-damned sense?”
Some kind of addressable multi-switch that failed to a default output?
To a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
6
@Huron
That must have not been recently or in one of today’s cities, he wouldn’t be alive for long……
2
Find someone who understands
vintage British Lucas wiring.
They’ll figure it out.
15
Was the vehicle owned by a horny teenager. Years ago, at my dad’s Shell station we had a customer who honked his horn deliberately at one of my dad’s mechanics when he went to check the oil like we always did for every customer. Norm then very calmly went inside the garage and grabbed a pair of dykes (pliers) and came back out and promptly cut the jerks horn wires, slammed the hood down and walked away. My dad was watching laughing his ass off and didn’t say anything to Norm about it and that jerk never came back and bought gas from us ever again. Sometimes the customer isn’t always right.
9
A friend of mine had a little tiny Honda 600 back in the mid 70’s who put a diesel air horn under his hood and when someone would make fun of him or insult that little POS Honda, he would lay into that horn and scare the shit out of them. No one ever expected that.
9
geoff – I had a 66 Chevy Bisquick with the stright six in it. There was sooo much space under the hood I had to put it to good use, so I went to the junk yard and bought a bunch of horns. Installed seven different horns under the hood! When I hit the horn at an intersection everybody looked around for the accident!!
9
The Chevy Biscayne was the poor man’s basic Chevy Impala. I had never heard it called a Bisquick before. Did it still have a 235 ci straight six, those darned engines would run forever.
3
geoff – That’s whut we called ’em. A full size car with the 250-ci inline-six and all of about 100HP… the Chevy Not Quick!
3
My fantasy is to have a car horn that has a sort of sliding scale of intensity, quieter to louder, gentle to ferocious. A spectrum of available sounds, beginning at one end with a tinkling bell and a voice saying, “Excuse me sir or madam, but the light has turned green,” and at the other end something that sounds like a diesel-electric locomotive and a voice screaming, “GET OUT OF THE F███ING WAY, YOU F███ING ███HOLE!” or “PUT DOWN YOUR F███ING PHONE, S███HEAD!”
10
Al – I put in a second loud horn with the relay on a 500ms delay. That allows me to beep-beep with short horn taps. Press and hold and the mayhem starts!
6
We all had Triumphs and BSAs with Lucas electric, Amal carbs, and whitworth bolts. Constantly working on them. Different world.
My friend had a Chevy Biscayne with a 409 that we called the Bisquick. Never heard anyone else call it that ’til now.
7
Lucas electrics, kinda like Green Energy these days. Don’t work, either.
1
If it can’t be fixed it shouldn’t be purchased.
3
A buddy of mine had a new Kia that the windows would roll up and down by themselves.
3
I like Uncle Al’s idea combined with Harry Eyeball’s. When you hold the horn button down, one of your options is:
“MOVE, BITCH!”
“Get out the way!”
“Get out the way, BITCH!”
“Get out the way!”
Or, maybe:
“Do you feel lucky, PUNK?”
“Well, do ya?”
*BANG*
6
Union built, Friday afternoon.
3
Yea we had Brit bikes too. Of all the bikes I’ve owned my favorite is still the ’72 650 tiger I had for about 6 years.
And we knew all about ‘Joe Lucas… The prince of darkness.’
3
Boys will be boys and have a blast acting like boys, ain’t it great. One of my brothers had a Triumph 750 that you could hear for blocks after he’d take off from my dad’s Shell station heading S. on Regal St. gunning it as hard as he could. He also had a little Austin Healy bug eyed sprite and kept it running because we used to have a damned good British car mechanic living in Spokane who worked exclusively on English cars.
5
Sounds like a CAN bus issue…
2
Honk if you’re horny.
3
HONK..HONK HONK..honk.honk. hon… Snore.
3
@Huron: “I once wired the horn on my friends truck into his brake light circuit.”
We did the same in grad school 35 years ago, and then stuck on a bumper sticker that said “honk if you’re gay”
LAN networks.Fiber optic control lines.
11 computers and systems on top of systems
to monitor more electronic systems. Alot of
older repairmen are retiring. The dealers
can’t even fix some cars…..
Because of all the crap they put on vehicles that many don’t want or need.
The last good vehicle I had was my 98 Ford F150. Rubber floors, hand crank windows and manual locks, A/C, cruise control, radio and 5 spd manual with 16 inch wheels.
Everything I needed.
Can’t buy that vehicle anymore.
I once wired the horn on my friends truck into his brake light circuit.
“How does that even make God-damned sense?”
Some kind of addressable multi-switch that failed to a default output?
To a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
@Huron
That must have not been recently or in one of today’s cities, he wouldn’t be alive for long……
Find someone who understands
vintage British Lucas wiring.
They’ll figure it out.
Was the vehicle owned by a horny teenager. Years ago, at my dad’s Shell station we had a customer who honked his horn deliberately at one of my dad’s mechanics when he went to check the oil like we always did for every customer. Norm then very calmly went inside the garage and grabbed a pair of dykes (pliers) and came back out and promptly cut the jerks horn wires, slammed the hood down and walked away. My dad was watching laughing his ass off and didn’t say anything to Norm about it and that jerk never came back and bought gas from us ever again. Sometimes the customer isn’t always right.
A friend of mine had a little tiny Honda 600 back in the mid 70’s who put a diesel air horn under his hood and when someone would make fun of him or insult that little POS Honda, he would lay into that horn and scare the shit out of them. No one ever expected that.
geoff – I had a 66 Chevy Bisquick with the stright six in it. There was sooo much space under the hood I had to put it to good use, so I went to the junk yard and bought a bunch of horns. Installed seven different horns under the hood! When I hit the horn at an intersection everybody looked around for the accident!!
The Chevy Biscayne was the poor man’s basic Chevy Impala. I had never heard it called a Bisquick before. Did it still have a 235 ci straight six, those darned engines would run forever.
geoff – That’s whut we called ’em. A full size car with the 250-ci inline-six and all of about 100HP… the Chevy Not Quick!
My fantasy is to have a car horn that has a sort of sliding scale of intensity, quieter to louder, gentle to ferocious. A spectrum of available sounds, beginning at one end with a tinkling bell and a voice saying, “Excuse me sir or madam, but the light has turned green,” and at the other end something that sounds like a diesel-electric locomotive and a voice screaming, “GET OUT OF THE F███ING WAY, YOU F███ING ███HOLE!” or “PUT DOWN YOUR F███ING PHONE, S███HEAD!”
Al – I put in a second loud horn with the relay on a 500ms delay. That allows me to beep-beep with short horn taps. Press and hold and the mayhem starts!
We all had Triumphs and BSAs with Lucas electric, Amal carbs, and whitworth bolts. Constantly working on them. Different world.
My friend had a Chevy Biscayne with a 409 that we called the Bisquick. Never heard anyone else call it that ’til now.
Lucas electrics, kinda like Green Energy these days. Don’t work, either.
If it can’t be fixed it shouldn’t be purchased.
A buddy of mine had a new Kia that the windows would roll up and down by themselves.
I like Uncle Al’s idea combined with Harry Eyeball’s. When you hold the horn button down, one of your options is:
“MOVE, BITCH!”
“Get out the way!”
“Get out the way, BITCH!”
“Get out the way!”
Or, maybe:
“Do you feel lucky, PUNK?”
“Well, do ya?”
*BANG*
Union built, Friday afternoon.
Yea we had Brit bikes too. Of all the bikes I’ve owned my favorite is still the ’72 650 tiger I had for about 6 years.
And we knew all about ‘Joe Lucas… The prince of darkness.’
Boys will be boys and have a blast acting like boys, ain’t it great. One of my brothers had a Triumph 750 that you could hear for blocks after he’d take off from my dad’s Shell station heading S. on Regal St. gunning it as hard as he could. He also had a little Austin Healy bug eyed sprite and kept it running because we used to have a damned good British car mechanic living in Spokane who worked exclusively on English cars.
Sounds like a CAN bus issue…
Honk if you’re horny.
HONK..HONK HONK..honk.honk. hon… Snore.
@Huron: “I once wired the horn on my friends truck into his brake light circuit.”
We did the same in grad school 35 years ago, and then stuck on a bumper sticker that said “honk if you’re gay”