I grew up in the 50s in St. Louis MO and these things meant only two things, Tornado is a-coming or the Ruskies done did the unthinkable. This sound still gives me chills thanks for the memories.
NeglectedField I'd be all like "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKK!"
Federal Signal Thunderbolt :) It was used in the cold war as i know - take your time to listen to that insane mechanical siren from a good video for it - just when it goes off - it's like a roar of destruction X) Write this on youtube search ( 12/21/2011 Thunderbolt 1000T Alert & Attack )
this sounds like the type of siren that screams "aliens, zombies, overpriced corndogs, the world is officially fucked and there is nothing anyone can do about it, enjoy the apocalypse"
My mom grew up in Detroit during the 1950s when these were in the city as the official siren. Detroit and chicago was the major manufacturing hub for the military, and thus was one of the first targets the Soviet government would hit with ICBMs. She would always tell me how scary it was, having to go into the basement of her school to practice the air raid drill. When I found this I told her about it, and being curious she asked me to show her. We played this on our home theater, and it scared the living hell out of her. "Yep. That's the one." She told me. I was worried that I gave her a panic attack. Then my aunt came over and my mom had me play it for her to scare the crap out of her. She laughed when my aunt got scared. Thank you for preserving the haunting sound of the past.
Everyone notive most are powered by the Chrysler 392 C.I.D.Hemi V-8 engine? As a person who grew up during the cold war, these siren tests were quite chilling, children were fully aware they signaled a nuclear attack. The sound of this siren brought back memroies of ducking under my deask in school not knowing if I would ever get back up again. Unlike today, there was no mass alert to the testing, it occured the first Wednesday of each month. Accidental activations happened from time to time and would really set you teeth on edge. So the prevailing wisdom dictated if you hear them, take cover. The video brought all the unease and apprehinsion back as if yesterday. Odd that, after all these years of not hearing one.
Oh yes! You DID understand. The reason you continued to crawl under you desk for the drill, was if you did not, the teacher or principal would smack you with a ruler! None the less, during the cold war, when you lived in a city with a major air force base on one side of town, and missile launch facilities on the other side of town, (both ICBM and defensive missiles,) not to mention all the television shows and movies on the topic, you knew that if the big button was pushed, and when the sirens went off for real, it was going to be the end of life as we knew it. You understood it, but did not dwell on it. Life went on. I guess you just had to be there...
Take it from a veteran of 43 years, it sends chills down my spine. I'm old enough to have experienced the drills in school in the 1960's and "This is a TEST" broadcasts on PBS. Such was life in the Cold War.
I remember hearing this thing back in the early 60's every first Friday of the month. It was on a steel tower in the parking lot of the police department. It always tripped me out. Kinda sounded like a big flying saucer or something.
To me that is the sweetest sounding siren ever, let alone the loudest. It could be heard 5 miles away when wrapped up full RPM. The Hemi engine was needed due to the torque of winding up those huge siren blades in that housing. Thus a high torque engine to place its full power to the blades to achieve its volume and full potential. I remember the Cuban Missile crisis very well. While we tried to live normal lives, we were on edge thinking that Cuba could or would launch missiles at us and start WWIII. Sirens like these were specific to making a lot of noise and alerting hundreds of thousands of people at the same time. Great video by the way. Thank you for having it on You Tube. It is a full testament to days gone by. But, maybe the way things are going, they may make them again.
GREAT recording. It is rare to hear a restored Chrysler siren revved to full power. Amazing how the sound of the engine, running loudly through open pipes is easily drowned out by the siren itself.
yes, most horrendous, obnoxious, terrifying, loud, abominable… yet fascinating, unique and dare I say, hauntingly beautiful sound. Amazing how the devices we use to warn of disaster and/or war and the consequences of our society falling apart, can, in moments like this, bring us together.
Rare recording!! Most of those sirens on tour, the owners fear to rev them to full power because of the tremendous decibel output. Hearing this with the echoes give be total goosebumps!!! Best recording I ever heard of one of these!! My friend Harry was among the first to fully restore one of these and I have operated it myself, out in the country where we could also rev it to full power. Awesome, amazing recording!!!
Best Mopar commercial ever!! .. "HEY, HAS THAT THING GOT A HEMI??" .. "Oh, Did you mean the air siren on my trailer... Yeah, that's got a HEMI too... "
I had hoped never to hear that sound again. Still brings a shiver down my spine and brings back the deep dread I remember feeling when it went off in the 1980's. We weren't told that it was a test back then, not like you did here, but the those same feelings live on. God help us all if it's ever used for real. Thanks for sharing.
Joanne Stealey these were wired up to a single control center, kinda like the modern tornado sirens today. So all you need to do is wire up the ignition to the signal wire for your average tornado siren and your good to go.
That siren is absolutely haunting to me. I grew up during the 1970s and 1980s and always knew we were one step away from nuclear war. Thank God we've never had to hear a siren like that as a warning to the end of the world.
Growing up in Los Angeles in the ‘60’s we would hear these being tested fairly regularly. No matter which way you turned your head you would hear a siren at a different pitch. The echos were ominous. When I got older and understood what they were (duck and cover until age 8 was all we knew), I remember a teacher telling us that if we ever heard them go off at a non-scheduled time, we had less than 10 minutes left to live. Some kids laughed. Some got it. It’s a sound you never forget.
I grew up with one of these 8 miles away. It's not so much the reverb and echo, and you got that nailed, but its the shear volume, acoustic energy. Here in the south with the humidity the Chrysler horn would make it rain just in front of the horn, literally the sound pressure would squeeze rain out of the air in front of the horn. The other thing is that the mass of the rotating mass of the horn pluss the rotating mass of the entire thing ment that the time it took to rev up or down was slower much slower than what you emulated. Still, the images you show are cool. As a acoustic engineer and mopar fan this was great. Thanks.
I agree wit ya, I've listen to this hundreds of times and every time it sends shivers down my spine every time! It's unique and amazing at the same time!!
No kidding about the Gents air raid sirens! I scared the shit out of everyone in a 1/2 to maybe 3/4 of a mile radius of my house on New Years Eve at midnight. I played a 1 minute "Attack" signal on the huge speakers I have- I literally have to plug my ears 'cause it's so loud. No joke.
I take practicality over sound. With the carter, Wyoming, MN needs 2 of them, with these, it can be 24 miles away, and you still hear it In all honesty the carter sounds good as hell and we have one on a water tower
Green And Orange Line Productions It wasn't even scary or eerie, it was nothing but quit, and these sirens have a 2.1 mile radius, which from five miles away, probably came from two sirens instead of one.
I have a huge Electro Voice horn speaker with a integral tweeter that I snurfed on a few years ago from work, and a 200 watt solid state amp that can be bridged to 400 watts. I have been giving serious consideration of putting that speaker on my Ham Radio antenna tower and just letting 'er rip. In the event of an emergency, of course. ;)
Where were these built, do you know? I used to live a couple hundred yards from the Chrysler assembly plant in Newark DE (they made tanks during WW2), and we had one of these sirens as the "call" for the volunteer firefighters, mounted on top of the firehouse near Main Street.
Clare The Xenomorph When I hear it it's like "FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK! NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUKKKK-" He ded! lol
I miss this siren that went off on at 12:00 pm. Where i was raised as a kid on the west coast. It is no longer there. They took it down a long time ago. This brings back some memories from back then.
Completely different sound from the original super loud one, and one of the toys. The "long distance" echos really are what makes this and all sirens so awesome.
Good gravy! What a sound! I would definitely be running for cover if I heard this~to protect my eardrums and my backside. So blood~curdling. And incredibly haunting.
It would be nice to have this Big Red Chrysler up and running in my areas where I live. Wouldn't have to worry about the electric going out. I'd just need gas and jumper cables in hand just in case. Perfect for needing a warning when the powers out in the areas we live in
*War has changed.* *It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles, fought by mercenaries and machines.* *War--and it's consumption of life--has become a well-oiled machine.* *War has changed.* *ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities.* *Genetic control, information control, emotion control, battlefield control…everything is monitored and kept under control.* *War…has changed.* *The age of deterrence has become the age of control, all in the name of averting catastrophe from weapons of mass destruction, and he who controls the battlefield, controls history.* *War…has changed.* *When the battlefield is under total control, war becomes routine.*
I have found the answer to my neighbors that keep me up when I'm trying to sleep. Now I just gotta back the trailer up to their window and set my alarm for 3am. Thank you so very very much.
It's 3 o clock in the morning Sunday morning, strap this to your trailer, drive around your city with a 300 gallon fuel tank on the back with this thing on full power...
Wow. Hardly anything scares me anymore, but that is quite a scary sound. I'd hate to be right next to one of those things. But still pretty cool how they're made.
How does this thing work? Like is there two turbines or choppers that are spinning in opposite directions? Its gotta be something more complicating than just an ordinary siren with one turbine and one stationary chopper ( like a p-50 or sd-10 to name a few)
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The siren also does a 10 sec quarter mile
Lol
Lol that’s great
Lmao
It's got a Hemi
180 hp 331 Hemi. It ain’t going anywhere fast😂
only the Americans would think of powering a siren with a V8
Thee Adjudicator Wait!
I coulda' had a V-8?
what about a W16?
Max Max!
well Jeramy Clarkson powered a rocking chair and a blender with a V8
British Sirens but he ist english and Not murrican
I grew up in the 50s in St. Louis MO and these things meant only two things, Tornado is a-coming or the Ruskies done did the unthinkable. This sound still gives me chills thanks for the memories.
Are the rusky the Russians
@@trep.xgh2.0 Yes.
One remains in Kansas City!
@@MasenMonster Like it runs as a tornado siren or some museum uses it?
@@thecaynuck4694 Neither, its inactive sadly. :(
Drive around your city at 55 mph at 3 am with this going full tilt.
LMAO!!XD
YASS! Please do!
+HUBBABUBBA DOOPYDOOP loooooooooooooooooooooooool
7am Sunday morning that will get em out of bed specially in Melbourne Australia lol !
is that rampage, profile pic?
that is the scariest air raid siren ive ever heard
This siren has an indescribable wailing sound to it.
Green And Orange Line Productions damn
Green And Orange Line Productions please reupload
CHAIN Oh no. The website must have gone down.
RampageExtreme 5820K The website must have gone down
I lived in Neah Bay years ago.
Every night, 10 PM, we had a 45 second serenade from an old Chrysler.
It was the Curfew Siren.
"It's 10 o' clock. Do you know where your children are?"
LGTheOneFreeMan it's 10 o'clock, do you know where your guns are?
Greg Gallacci oh
Curfew? For the “freedom loving” Americans? This is a joke don’t bully me
@@frostyvr9805 www.mariowiki.com/bully
This isn't so much "duck and cover" but "hey guys just so you know, you're screwed, kthxbai"
NeglectedField I'd be all like "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKK!"
loollolollololllollloo9ll
accurate
I'd be like ok kids time to take your cyanide pills.
And that chilling " I can't look" feeling that you get as a siren winds down
They need to make modern equivalents to these things. Current sirens are just too weaksauce compared to this thing.
***** It just sounded creepy, I like it. The best sirens are ones that are loud and make you say "WTH".
Unbearable Pain The ACA P-50.
+Unbearable Pain jumbo Jet engine powered siren?
+David Vermillion That would probably blow windows out for like, 37 miles.
Federal Signal Thunderbolt :)
It was used in the cold war as i know - take your time to listen to that insane mechanical siren from a good video for it - just when it goes off - it's like a roar of destruction X)
Write this on youtube search ( 12/21/2011 Thunderbolt 1000T Alert & Attack )
This is a nightmare...
The Mighty Wolf was it the blitz
Krazy0ManMan its not sick and disgusting. its horrifying and cruel
Krazy0ManMan you can hate me for saying this, but sometimes war is necessary
Funny though that one tends to remember nightmares much more than nice dreams (no, not Cheech & Chong type of nice dreams)
@Krazy0ManMan "War, what is it good for? Everything!" -Soldier, TF2
this sounds like the type of siren that screams "aliens, zombies, overpriced corndogs, the world is officially fucked and there is nothing anyone can do about it, enjoy the apocalypse"
+Justin Noker and after that siren, we can hear elevator music while everyone is either got slaughtered or riot everywhere
+Zefanya Lt Cheers dude, your comment is brilliant!
Well, you damn sure wouldn't have no problem knowing when there is a Tornado coming.
This is the best comment I've ever seen. Thank you.
Overpriced corndogs XD
when u step on a lego
Ha
True :3
WW3 is now on your foot
Legos V foot fighters
This made my day 🤣😂
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooOOOOOOOOOO"
Holy shit. These American sirens honetly let out the most deafening wails I've heard in a looong time
Better than those shitty ATI... things.
Not modern ones, they are weak as fuck, I literally can sleep through them at full power and I live roughly 2.5-3 blocks from one
@@Bacony_Cakes ATI. A Terrible Invention.
@@Bacony_Cakes yeah kan
@@brandonburkest6229 lol
I really hope I never hear this.
I was just thinking the same thing, Nick
inclined to agree
very unlikely you will. there were under 100 of these made and i believe only 2 are still used once a month as a test.
I mean just the tone of it in general
Chris Martin They're still in active service??
My mom grew up in Detroit during the 1950s when these were in the city as the official siren. Detroit and chicago was the major manufacturing hub for the military, and thus was one of the first targets the Soviet government would hit with ICBMs.
She would always tell me how scary it was, having to go into the basement of her school to practice the air raid drill. When I found this I told her about it, and being curious she asked me to show her. We played this on our home theater, and it scared the living hell out of her. "Yep. That's the one." She told me. I was worried that I gave her a panic attack.
Then my aunt came over and my mom had me play it for her to scare the crap out of her. She laughed when my aunt got scared.
Thank you for preserving the haunting sound of the past.
Everyone notive most are powered by the Chrysler 392 C.I.D.Hemi V-8 engine?
As a person who grew up during the cold war, these siren tests were quite chilling, children were fully aware they signaled a nuclear attack. The sound of this siren brought back memroies of ducking under my deask in school not knowing if I would ever get back up again. Unlike today, there was no mass alert to the testing, it occured the first Wednesday of each month. Accidental activations happened from time to time and would really set you teeth on edge. So the prevailing wisdom dictated if you hear them, take cover. The video brought all the unease and apprehinsion back as if yesterday. Odd that, after all these years of not hearing one.
Always has gave me a nice goose-bump Rush....I like it!! hahaha
Well now we have Kim Jong un so these sirens are gonna probably be testing a lot
331 hemi 1951
Oh yes! You DID understand. The reason you continued to crawl under you desk for the drill, was if you did not, the teacher or principal would smack you with a ruler! None the less, during the cold war, when you lived in a city with a major air force base on one side of town, and missile launch facilities on the other side of town, (both ICBM and defensive missiles,) not to mention all the television shows and movies on the topic, you knew that if the big button was pushed, and when the sirens went off for real, it was going to be the end of life as we knew it. You understood it, but did not dwell on it. Life went on. I guess you just had to be there...
Not a 392 Hemi... many were 331 or 354 Industrial engines, never heard of one with a 392.
I want one. I have no idea what I'd do with it but I want one.
HAHA! Agreed indeed!
alarm clock
If I had one I would blow that noise to the people I hate and blast that noise into their house at 4:00 in the morning
+Gamers inc. I wouldn't even have to blast it into their house, just the same county and it'd wake them up.
There you go
This siren reminds me of my friend, loud as shit
Lol
+A Flying Space Kangaroo WIns the internet
wtf at least your friend wasn't that loud, or you'd die lol
Ah yes taco bell, loud shit.
I’m like your friend then
Take it from a veteran of 43 years, it sends chills down my spine.
I'm old enough to have experienced the drills in school in the 1960's and "This is a TEST" broadcasts on PBS.
Such was life in the Cold War.
Quite an alarm. Does it come with a snooze button?
Ask Chuck Norris.
Yeah. It's called a nuke. Except if you use it the chances of waking up again are slim to none...so let's use it :D
LMFAO.
LOL!!!
I remember hearing this thing back in the early 60's every first Friday of the month. It was on a steel tower in the parking lot of the police department. It always tripped me out. Kinda sounded like a big flying saucer or something.
To me that is the sweetest sounding siren ever, let alone the loudest. It could be heard 5 miles away when wrapped up full RPM. The Hemi engine was needed due to the torque of winding up those huge siren blades in that housing. Thus a high torque engine to place its full power to the blades to achieve its volume and full potential. I remember the Cuban Missile crisis very well. While we tried to live normal lives, we were on edge thinking that Cuba could or would launch missiles at us and start WWIII. Sirens like these were specific to making a lot of noise and alerting hundreds of thousands of people at the same time. Great video by the way. Thank you for having it on You Tube. It is a full testament to days gone by. But, maybe the way things are going, they may make them again.
Not 5 miles, 25 to 30. These beasts were LOUD
Loud doesn't even BEGIN to describe the decibel output of these things.
Oh how relevant this comment is 5 years later
25 miles.
25
MILES
Way more than 5 miles. I can easily hear Whelens that far yet not even a P-50 carries 5 miles
When you hear this there will be no point in running. Resistance will be futile :)
SouthCalifas619 especially if im attacking
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA lol
well, I guess that defeats the whole purpose of a siren doesn't it
Someday our dreams will come true
So listen along to the musical doodle
Normal siren: Tornado's coming! Seek shelter now!
This siren: *THEY ARE HERE FOR YOUR SOULS*
Great comment!
Soul Reapers call.
Loud enough to wake the dead. Set it off in a cemetery and find out.
rlstz son im done
It can be heard up to 25 miles away.
rlstz that would be highly disrespectful
Are you trying to make the apocalypse?
LMAOOOOOO 😅😂 so disrespectful but so funny at the same timeeeeee
Imagine walking at night in the countryside whether that be a large field or forest and hearing this.
GREAT recording. It is rare to hear a restored Chrysler siren revved to full power. Amazing how the sound of the engine, running loudly through open pipes is easily drowned out by the siren itself.
Correction: this was manufactured between 1952-1957.
The website in the description says all about it, when and where they used the siren.
Surprisingly the website is still online
Its amazing how the sound of an air raid siren can be fascinating and horrifying at the same time.
yes, most horrendous, obnoxious, terrifying, loud, abominable… yet fascinating, unique and dare I say, hauntingly beautiful sound. Amazing how the devices we use to warn of disaster and/or war and the consequences of our society falling apart, can, in moments like this, bring us together.
Did Japan hear this?
+KCSShadowRace623 this siren was manufactured at the Chrysler Engine Plant in Trenton, Michigan to be exact
+taledarkside damnn
LIKE THE JOKE OR WHATEVER
+Nick Silcox Now That I Know That I'm Proud to live in the State Of Michigan
+I Like Cars same bruh
imagine using this as an alarmclock MUAHAHAHAHA
You wouldn't have any working ears.
Ben Miller yup
Spongbob Squarepants!
Bob Sagget OH BOB SAGET!
-Tourettes Guy
2nd person to do that. How dare you.
Rare recording!! Most of those sirens on tour, the owners fear to rev them to full power because of the tremendous decibel output. Hearing this with the echoes give be total goosebumps!!! Best recording I ever heard of one of these!! My friend Harry was among the first to fully restore one of these and I have operated it myself, out in the country where we could also rev it to full power. Awesome, amazing recording!!!
These sirens were obviously based off Chuck Norris' headphones...
Carter: Get in a shelter
Chrysler: We'll Hope you had a good life.
After watching I take my headphones off and I can still hear the siren......... Uhh ohh
ikr
boom
tornado, get in your basement and kiss your ass goodbye
+Artyom Zaytsev this ain't a tornado siren. Air raid siren.
AIR RAID Get to your basement\air raid shelter and kiss your little ass goodbye
Best Mopar commercial ever!! .. "HEY, HAS THAT THING GOT A HEMI??" .. "Oh, Did you mean the air siren on my trailer... Yeah, that's got a HEMI too... "
What if we put that on a dodge fire truck
it would be VERY NOISY
John Carrillo, the fire would run away.
The firefighters would be deafened.
Sarge_m16 That made my day xDD
Heheheheh
I had hoped never to hear that sound again. Still brings a shiver down my spine and brings back the deep dread I remember feeling when it went off in the 1980's. We weren't told that it was a test back then, not like you did here, but the those same feelings live on. God help us all if it's ever used for real. Thanks for sharing.
that would make one hell of a tornado siren
Not taking shelter ... and hopefully 8
@DJ POEHLER how can a 8 year old make a political insult
don hartman yeah except for it needs somebody to start it up
Joanne Stealey these were wired up to a single control center, kinda like the modern tornado sirens today.
So all you need to do is wire up the ignition to the signal wire for your average tornado siren and your good to go.
Tuba Player ohk
That siren is absolutely haunting to me. I grew up during the 1970s and 1980s and always knew we were one step away from nuclear war. Thank God we've never had to hear a siren like that as a warning to the end of the world.
Growing up in Los Angeles in the ‘60’s we would hear these being tested fairly regularly. No matter which way you turned your head you would hear a siren at a different pitch. The echos were ominous. When I got older and understood what they were (duck and cover until age 8 was all we knew), I remember a teacher telling us that if we ever heard them go off at a non-scheduled time, we had less than 10 minutes left to live. Some kids laughed. Some got it. It’s a sound you never forget.
Now those same sirens are rusting away 😞
I grew up with one of these 8 miles away. It's not so much the reverb and echo, and you got that nailed, but its the shear volume, acoustic energy. Here in the south with the humidity the Chrysler horn would make it rain just in front of the horn, literally the sound pressure would squeeze rain out of the air in front of the horn.
The other thing is that the mass of the rotating mass of the horn pluss the rotating mass of the entire thing ment that the time it took to rev up or down was slower much slower than what you emulated.
Still, the images you show are cool.
As a acoustic engineer and mopar fan this was great.
Thanks.
This siren's wail is spine-chilling.
Heard this is the loudest siren in the world, can be heard from 22 miles away!
im willing to bet this sound will go down in the history books as one of the most haunting/terrifying sounds of the 20th century
My dad used to install and test them at Detroit fire stations in the 50's
Looked in the Guenis Book Of World Records and this was awarded AGAIN as the loudest siren. I LOVE IT!!!
The wind up to this amazing siren sounds like the start-up of an old classic car. Really cool video!
If so, I would imagine a Hot-Rod making that sound.
It's because it's powered by a Chrysler Big Block V8.
My small home town tornado siren sounded the exact same, I still get chills hearing this.
I agree wit ya, I've listen to this hundreds of times and every time it sends shivers down my spine every time! It's unique and amazing at the same time!!
How much and where can I get one?
large museums of automotive or civil defense and a few car shows will have one, and how much? over 50grand, easily if it is for sale
+The Audio Master Of Audio aint nothin like owning a classic though
The loudest siren!
Callum C this would be very for a tornado warning
I also want to have one...where can i buy it?
sounds like a dying whale. The Carter air raid siren on the other hand, thats a different story.
No kidding about the Gents air raid sirens! I scared the shit out of everyone in a 1/2 to maybe 3/4 of a mile radius of my house on New Years Eve at midnight. I played a 1 minute "Attack" signal on the huge speakers I have- I literally have to plug my ears 'cause it's so loud. No joke.
Correct
I take practicality over sound. With the carter, Wyoming, MN needs 2 of them, with these, it can be 24 miles away, and you still hear it
In all honesty the carter sounds good as hell and we have one on a water tower
I like the Carter/Gents sirens. They are very effective and produce a chilling sound.
They both make you say "oh shiiiiit"
eerie as fuck... would not wanna wake up to that thing
Imagine hearings that in Tornado alley.
This sound clip recorded from 5 miles away is even more eerie: web.archive.org/web/20160620235252/victorysiren.com/x/wav/HB122803D.wav
Chris Martin your glad u didn't
Chris Martin if I woke up to this, my I'd probably poop and pee my pants
Green And Orange Line Productions It wasn't even scary or eerie, it was nothing but quit, and these sirens have a 2.1 mile radius, which from five miles away, probably came from two sirens instead of one.
My asshole neighbors would drop dead if I fired that up in my drive way.
I have a huge Electro Voice horn speaker with a integral tweeter that I snurfed on a few years ago from work, and a 200 watt solid state amp that can be bridged to 400 watts. I have been giving serious consideration of putting that speaker on my
Ham Radio antenna tower and just letting 'er rip. In the event of an emergency, of course. ;)
palt habbaboof LOL watch them spaz out xD
Where were these built, do you know? I used to live a couple hundred yards from the Chrysler assembly plant in Newark DE (they made tanks during WW2), and we had one of these sirens as the "call" for the volunteer firefighters, mounted on top of the firehouse near Main Street.
The Queen of All Sirens
Every time i hear this siren, this goes through my mind: It's the end of the world.
Clare The Xenomorph When I hear it it's like "FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK! NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUKKKK-" He ded!
lol
Clare The Xenomorph When i hear it. it makes me feel like there is a shit ton of ghosts running towards me...
GamerhackTV More like "Shi..." He's dead Jim!
xLDKx NewYorker Haha! Yea, actually that is right. :D
gave me chills..
One of the scariest sounds ever
I miss this siren that went off on at 12:00 pm. Where i was raised as a kid on the west coast. It is no longer there. They took it down a long time ago. This brings back some memories from back then.
THIS VID IS THE SOUND OF THE DEAD SPIRIT OF THE SIREN
Completely different sound from the original super loud one, and one of the toys. The "long distance" echos really are what makes this and all sirens so awesome.
Good gravy! What a sound! I would definitely be running for cover if I heard this~to protect my eardrums and my backside. So blood~curdling. And incredibly haunting.
imagine having this as an alarm clock
Would love how you'd feel upon hearing 138 dB wails while you're sleeping next to it :)
It would crush your bedside table.
Say goodbye to your hearing
My little brother: *hits me*
Me: *hits him back*
Him:
when a old video gets recommended to you ya know that its good
0:45 It sounds like starting sports car engine. Yes, I know, this siren is powered by Chrysler Hemi V8 car engine.
Haunting noise, omg!
Much more scarring that a carter. 😦😦😦😦😦😦
Very eerie and haunting sound. Takes me back to the days of "When you see the flash, duck, and cover"
Just like what Bert the Turtle does
Sounds like a haunt from HELL! I'd be bookin' for shelter at hearing this ghostly moan!
It would be nice to have this Big Red Chrysler up and running in my areas where I live. Wouldn't have to worry about the electric going out. I'd just need gas and jumper cables in hand just in case. Perfect for needing a warning when the powers out in the areas we live in
In cold war, hearing this go off would be the scariest thing ever.
They should keep that up...
I like the sound... I-I like the sound...💀
Killcard707 personally it's somewhat soothing. I get what you mean
Whats next, a siren powered by a V10?
When I was a teenager I would play this on full blast on my stereo when my family started screaming
The yellow one mounted on a tower at appr. 2:12, is that the one in the Woodland Pk area of N Seattle off of Phinney Ave N?
Hearing this full blast just vibrates the hell outta my insides! Scariest sound ever!!
War....War never changes
*War has changed.*
*It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles, fought by mercenaries and machines.*
*War--and it's consumption of life--has become a well-oiled machine.*
*War has changed.*
*ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities.*
*Genetic control, information control, emotion control, battlefield control…everything is monitored and kept under control.*
*War…has changed.*
*The age of deterrence has become the age of control, all in the name of averting catastrophe from weapons of mass destruction, and he who controls the battlefield, controls history.*
*War…has changed.*
*When the battlefield is under total control, war becomes routine.*
I need this for when my neighbors dog is being annoying
SilentHill. Nothing more.
I agree
Tornado time, baby!!!:)
Enter:
*Brookhaven Hospital*
I have found the answer to my neighbors that keep me up when I'm trying to sleep. Now I just gotta back the trailer up to their window and set my alarm for 3am.
Thank you so very very much.
Now that's the sound of freedom
sounds like a ghost
Why do air raid sirens give me goosebumps?
It's cuz when you heard that in the 50s you would've taken cover.
I want one of these, good to use when you hear those shitty prayer calls.
Amen brother!
im soooo horny
Useful, in fact, 'cause when they start praying, bombs start exploding.
ELECTRICCLOCK. I Totally agree
I have an animal that is trained to alert me in case I do not respond to a tornado siren and these siren videos are absolutely driving him nuts.
I could put my earbuds in and listen to this all day long
And that's one horrifying echo damn
Scary! But the best sounding siren I`ve heard, so far. Also I really like those impressive mighty red sirens, the loudest sirens ever made!
I feel like this is the begging of a 90's song XD
Where was this recorded and is it real? I can't find any other videos with it being that loud or echoed. Creepy as hell.
To be honest, life would probably be even more dangerous than it already is without warning sirens, and some people in the world can't afford phones.
Goosebumps, like I've never had before. That's simply petrifying.
It's 3 o clock in the morning Sunday morning, strap this to your trailer, drive around your city with a 300 gallon fuel tank on the back with this thing on full power...
LAMOOOO XD
Wow. Hardly anything scares me anymore, but that is quite a scary sound. I'd hate to be right next to one of those things. But still pretty cool how they're made.
Trust me, the last thing you’d be worried about is it sounding scary if you would be right next to it as it is beyond loud
listen, you just made my day a ton better, thank you.
How does this thing work? Like is there two turbines or choppers that are spinning in opposite directions? Its gotta be something more complicating than just an ordinary siren with one turbine and one stationary chopper ( like a p-50 or sd-10 to name a few)
😂 How to make the Uncontacted Tribes of Papa New Guinea invent a new God.
how did my weedwacker get up there?
0:46
"oh? they did it now?"
1:01
"uh oh."
1:09
*"oHHOLYFUCKINGSHIT-"*
At 1:01 it sounds so close like a JDM car
omg with headphones this sounds amazing! Great quality. love the start up.
@ Ben De Santis...
So your saying if I was right next to it, I would no longer have eardrums?