Hood HORNS!

[billrobbobjo]

I was on my way back to school to sign up for some classes and decided to stop a place I have always thought would be fun to go for walk though memory lane, or what I wish I could have grown up in when cars had class. I hit the gold mine guys. they are not perfect but I dropped right away when I saw them!
Let me know what you guys think, I think I can make the top fins at the machine shop I used to work at!

[mr48chev]

Every since I was 16 with my first car the first thing I did was take junk and clutter like that off my cars and trucks. Never quite understand why guys want to hang it on their trucks.

[billrobbobjo]

Those came on the trucks, only a couple thousand got them, they sell for about a grand if you can find them
http://remarkablecars.com/1957-chevrolet-trucks.html

[mr48chev]

I full and well understand that and understand why you guys love them. I just never cared for the cluttered up with all the gee gaws look. Had a big go around with the salesman who ordered my 69 Cutlass S in 1968 for me because he insisted that I needed to buy the chrome wheel well trim rings for it. That car was ordered with 4 options on it, 310 hp 350, Muncie M21 4 speed, 3.42 Posi and an AM-FM Multiplex radio that cost 228 bucks and made my dad shake his head until he heard it. I put Chrome reverse rims on it the day after I bought it. All sleek, clean and fast.

My 48 does have a chrome bull nose strip simply because it breaks up all of the big round painted nose a bit. I'd never consider putting a hood ornament on it though.

Actually when I saw the thread I thought that you meant that you had found some big chrome air horns for the hood.

[billrobbobjo]

ah, Haha na I stick to stock stuff the most I can just upgrade it like power steering and make it fun, its what ever people like on their cars. I just thought being that most on the junkyards are all picked over plus the rockets I should have called them, being as rare as they are, I would have never guessed to find a pair.

[mr48chev]

Actually I wouldn't have thought you would find a pair that were usable.

I always relate the adding trinkets on cars and trucks to the H.O.G. guys at the Harley shop buying one each of the chrome trinkets for their bikes in the name of customizing and the more trinkets and fru fru the more custom they think it is.

I used to laugh at my dad's stories of his best friend Lyle Browning from when they were growing up and Lyle was always adding extra embellishment and trinkets including air horns on the side of the hood of his Chevy roadster when they were young.

At any rate have fun with it and do it your way and I'll sit back and marvel at the shiny stuff you stick on it.

[chev3600]

Good find. Whether you use them or sell them, I'd sure grab them up.

[1project2many]

I think that's a rare find. Even if you don't use them you should grab them for the story.

I thought about buying a set of reproduction rockets when I restored my truck in '98. Maybe I should have just to resell them now. But I decided that my truck was a working class farm truck for years and no matter how nice the restoration it just wouldn't be right. I put scratch shields behind the handles because I expected to use the truck, and I hope someday to put armrests inside. Power steering and power brakes are coming because I'm getting older. Other than that? Maybe someday I'l finish my SM465 conversion...