View Full Version : Anybody Have a Working Horn Laying Around?


TheFastForester
10-30-2010, 12:16:23 AM
Looking for a horn for my '78. Thanks.

Gary S
10-30-2010, 12:59:37 AM
Do you know what note, or notes you need? I have a pair of horns here from a 70 Caprice. I haven't checked the notes or just how similar the mounting brackets are to Camaro brackets.
GM used
1. Single horns (standard on many GM vehicles from 71 and later.
2. Dual horns (standard on many 70 and earlier GM vehicles, and optional on later vehicles)
3. Triple horns (probably Cadillac only, or a few other really high end GM vehicles.

There were a number of different musical notes used.

If you want a really nice sounding horn, go to a local junkyard and see if you can find a 70s or possibly early 80s Caddy and pull all 3 horns from it and put them in your Camaro.

If you want the car to sound like a ricer or a mini-pickup, use a single horn. If you want the car to command a little attention, go with dual horns. If you want to wake up the cell phone idiots, set your car up with triple horns.

z28rod
10-30-2010, 05:21:33 AM
or by one of those train horns, ever here one of those ?

Fri
10-30-2010, 08:56:26 AM
I have 3 working OEM horns from 70-73 camaro. $5 each. See my thread.

http://www.nastyz28.com/forum/showthread.php?t=196562

TheFastForester
10-30-2010, 11:30:36 AM
Fri, I'll take one of the horns you have. How much to ship to 80020?

Mark80Z28
10-30-2010, 11:48:18 AM
Fri, I'll take one of the horns you have. How much to ship to 80020?

You'd better make sure that whatever horn you buy has the same mounting bracket as yours, or you might have trouble getting it to work for your application. Where does yours mount? It should be either on the hood release or the passenger side fender, depending on whether your car had the dual horn option. The mounting brackets are all different on GM horns, even though many of the older ones look the same. I bought a horn off of a Firebird at a junkyard thinking it would work to replace the one on my hood release, but it wouldn't mount.

Dmystix
10-30-2010, 12:29:11 PM
Keith
Here's a single horn. mounted on the hood latch on my 78 parts car.
A little surface rust, but should clean up easy.
If you can use it, it's yours. Let me know. I'll check to make sure it works first, though, probably Monday.

TheFastForester
10-31-2010, 12:52:43 AM
I bought one of fri's, so hopefully that will work. Mine is just like Don's above and mounts on the hood latch. Except Don's looks like a ground wire was jumped? If fri's doesn't work for me I'd be interested in yours Don. Thanks for checking on that.

rosco72z
10-31-2010, 09:56:35 AM
I'll take the 2 horns if they are the ones that mount to the hood release, can you send these by snail mail to Canada, postal code H8Z 2J9, let me know the total price and can pay with PayPal.
Thanks Rosco

TheFastForester
11-03-2010, 09:32:35 AM
Don, pm sent on your horn.

TheFastForester
11-03-2010, 02:49:15 PM
Bump...0 for 2 on the horns so far, still looking for one just like Dmystix posted in the pic above.