Thread: My roadster no is horny :(

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Volkswagon horns work well on the thin fender cars.

Here's a pic of one on my 32.
Note that it's on a double strap standoff, apparently a stock item.
The standoff comes in the box with the horn on some brands and on others, no standoff.

The V-Dub horns are made in Germany - probably hard to find new nowadays - and Mexico.
They seem to be equal in quality and sound.

I have one of each and if I remember right, the German horn is the one that came with the standoff.

The horn sounds very close to the famous Plymouth Road Runner horn, but is not quite as loud.

If you use one of these, don't mount it without the standoff.
Especially if you mount it to the hood framework.
It sounds terrible without the standoff, but once the standoff is installed it has that cool beep-beep sound.

Far as the Ahoogah horns go, I had an old one that I was going to use on my 31 on 32 rails roadster.
It worked ok, but failed a while back.
It was a 6 volt horn on 12 volts.

I thought I could get away with it since I've used 6V Shoebox horns on 12V many times and other than a change in pitch, no problems.

Many of the re-pro Ahoogah horns you find nowadays are part or all plastic.