Re: OT: Chrysler air raid sirens

[Dave64 <lt7dave@xxxxxxxxx>]

Don Garlits has one of them in his Museum of Drag Racing in Florida - all restored.  Pretty impressive.

Dave

--- On Thu, 8/5/10, Jim Altemose <jaltemoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Jim Altemose <jaltemoose@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: OT: Chrysler air raid sirens
> To: "1962to1965mopars" <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thursday, August 5, 2010, 3:42 PM
> 
> After Jim Rowland mentioned the "Red Ram" engine, I was
> poking around
> on the Web and stumbled across the "Chrysler air raid
> siren".  To this
> day, it's the loudest siren ever made.
> 
> Built during the post-World War II Cold War era from
> 1952-1957 by
> Chrysler, its power plant contained a newly-designed
> FirePower Hemi
> V-8, 331 cubic inch 180 horsepower (130 kW) engine.
> 
> Its six horns, were each three feet long. The siren could
> be heard
> from a distance of 25 to 30 miles away and had an output of
> 138 dB and
> 30,000 watts. They were 12 feet (3.7 m) long, built atop a
> quarter
> section of a Dodge truck chassis rail, and weighed an
> estimated three
> tons.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_air_raid_siren
> 
> Pretty cool.
> 
> - Jim
> Jim Altemose, Long Island, NY
> '63 Polara 500 (Max Wedge)
> '63 Polara 500 (383)
> '65 Belvedere I (Street Wedge)
> '71 Bronco
> 
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