Riding up on someone’s tailgate and blasting the horn will prove much more satisfying with the Horntones FX-550.
The mobile audio system enables users to customize the sound their car horn makes with all kinds of sound effects — from various noises to movie lines to music clips.
The company also offers MP3 editing software online via the Virtual Player on its Web site. Unlike with ringtones, users don’t have to buy specially configured music. They simply use the Virtual Player to trim any MP3 track ripped from a CD to the right length and load it into the system.
Will they offer direct access to iTunes?
They need to make this illegal NOW. I have other peoples shitty music forced on me enough as it is without having it blasted at me at 100 decibels on every street corner.
After an initial period of overdoing it and showing-off…
this, too, shall pass.
Illegal within 6 months, but it would be fun to blast sound clips like ‘get the hell outta my way dumbass!’ once in a while to relieve frustration at the ultrastupid.
I am all for a slight variation of the system:
the car stereo plays the sound sample the owner desires
the horn itself on the outside remains unchanged.
That way, the wannabe druckdriver in his Nissan can sound a foghorn to himself, feel brave and mighty while not getting on the nerves of the drivers around him.
pj
Utterly cool. Imagine the Bubbling Cauldron at horn volume:
http://rope.92kqrs.com/TheBubblingCauldron.mp3
Great. Now I’m going to have to put a horn in the rear of my truck that says something like: “Fock you too, azzhole!”
Now I can live out my dreams of having an Orange 1969 dodge charger and have it play an out of tune version of Dixieland!!!
You know what I’m gonna do?
I’m gonna get myself a 1967 Cadilac El Dorado Convertable
Hot pink!
With whale skin hub caps
An all leather cow interior
And big brown baby seal eyes for headlights
YEAH!
And I’m gonna drive around in that baby
At 115 miles per hour
Getting one mile per gallon
Sucking down Quarter Pounder cheeseburgers from McDonalds in the old-fashioned non-biodegradable Styrofoam containers
And when I’m done sucking down those grease-ball burgers
I’m gonna wipe my mouth with the American flag
And then I’m gonna toss the Styrofoam containers right out the side
And there ain’t a Goddamn thing anybody can do about it
You’re missing a fine opportunity to offend – instead of a ragtop, make it a hearse!
Why not a convertible hearse? Then wire the Horntones directly to the ignition it blasts whenever the engine is running. Constant Bubbling Cauldron. Fun! The neighbors would love it when you’re pulling in at 3:00am after a night on the town.
Four chromed side pipes on each side, shooting flame when you rev it – that would be a nice, low-key touch, too…
Didn’t Ron Popeil try something like this with Mr. Microphone already?
“Hey, good looking, I’ll be back to pick you up later. Broadcast your voice on any FM radio!!!”
Didn’t the guys from MTV’s “Pimp my ride” already showed that?
Yes fish, this too shall pass.
I don’t know if anyone remembers The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers but there was a strip in the late 60’s where Phineas taped the sound of an 18 wheeler full of caged pigs locking up its brakes at 80 miles an hour to play over his amped Volkswagon stereo system.
Legal tampering with a safty device. Great. Just what I need to warn me of that oncoming train. Prelude to “Riders on the Storm”. Did you hear rain? Bang, I’m done!
Hehehe. This is great. But will totally be illegal before I get a car.
Damn, I really wanted my horn to sound like Al Pachino…..
Just what the world needs. More assholes with toys.
When someone gets too close to my bumper I start slowing down. The closer they get or the more they honk the slower I go.
I also legally carry a concealed gun in case things get out of hand. Fortunately it’s never gotten that bad.