I like how everything in the 40's and 50s was huge, bizarre and ludicrously badass like who else would be creative enough to think of mounting an alarm siren onto a V8 hemi engine? UPDATE: Since I just got another reply trying to explain the functionality and reasoning for the existence of the Chrysler siren, I'm going to go ahead and point out that I already know about this siren. I read all I could about it for the past 15 years and am fully aware of its purpose and locations. When I said "Who else would be creative enough to think of mounting an alarm siren onto a V8 hemi engine?", it was a rhetorical question.
it was needed an to be done an used because these can go 400 miles per hour get 137dbs of sound out the back an can be heard for twenty five miles away which were perfect for towns city's an farm land an can be used through a nuclear bomb strike
We bought two just like it from the state auction in 1972 and I also have one powered by a 46 buick straight 8. All three work well, and my neighbors hate me lol
Amazing that you have two Chrysler sirens in full working condition, thanks for being one of the few to actually run them at full power. These were ride and die in their era, and might as well be a weapon in city limits today.
Man… I love sirens but…at the corner of West Virginia (Ridgeley), there is a siren that plays every week for whatever damn reason and there are people who live right next to it. It makes me deaf half a mile away. I’m not sure how those crazy people who live there can tolerate that damn thing.
me and my friend had this happen when we we're about 15 and smoking a bit of weed in a field somewhere. We actually panicked and started running, not sure where we we're going though.
Gotta be the best recording of a Chrysler at full power in attack. Must’ve shook everything even at 500 feet from it lmfao. Also, I bet the wasps from all the nests in the horns got killed with the noise lmfao
I really love it that they gave it the full can of beans. Had that hemi singing! Seems like every other chrysler air raid siren video on YT the operator seems afraid to really give it full throttle
I heard one at Cerro Negro in Glendale, California, once a month when I was in grade school in the 1960's. Several local sirens sounded at 11 AM on either the first Tuesday or a Thursday in the month if I remember. The Chrysler Bell ran for another 2 minutes or so after the other closer pole mounted air raid sirens went silent. I would guess it to be 16 miles away. The sound itself was terrifying and foreboding, like doom was at hand. These rotated on a chain driven turntable so the sound got louder and softer as it turned. I have no doubts that the sound carried 25 miles. I was on my bike leaning against a telephone pole waiting for my buddy to arrive one morning. The Federal Signal air raid siren on top of the pole went off and it scared the hell out of me. Its still on top the pole by Pinewood School. The hemi powered one is still on top of the hill at Cerro Negro.
@@stewartengineering4009 yes, you're correct, in the dead of night at 1:30 a.m., just one of those would wake an entire city, let alone the dead in a cemetery. The town i live in has 4 ASC T-128s, if correctly placed, one of those Chrysler powered sirens would take the place of all 4 of them.
@@SOU6900 yep! Pretty much the whole subdivision would move out! (My thumbnail pic is me at Chicago Union Station, getting ready to board the PRR "General" just 7 months before Penn Central.)
It comes to mind because I did a bunch of research on hemis after poking around it a bit, but my grandfather had a DeSoto with a 341 'fireflite' hemi parked out back on his property. In the course of learning about them, I came across these sirens and would definitely enjoy owning one (or at least operating one) some day.
Hi Dale, I have been waiting many years to see a video like this of your stuff. The sirens run nice although my trailer and Chrysler look terrible. It would help after running to make sure that the chopper is positioned that the ports are closed. That will keep wasps, critters, dirt and debris out of the siren unit.
Hello, do have one of these Chrysler air raid sirens? I have been trying to find some contact info for Dale, or someone else that has one of these Chrysler units. Thanks!!
I carnt decide what’s best the chuckle at the start, the hemi, the siren or the fact that there hope for us all … still clowning around at 7O because you can 👍👍fantastic and good health for the future love it 😂😂
Chrysler air raid siren Destroy crowd booing sound effect Chrysler air raid siren Levels: 100% shaggy power Usefullness: 100% Gigachad Louder than everything Great Goat rating Rating: THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!! THAT'S WHY HE'S MVP!!! THAT'S WHY HE'S A GOAT! THE GOAT!!!!!!!!
LOVE this. 🥰🥰. Very surprised that the cops didn’t show up though. 😂😂😂. Those old Hemi powered sirens REALLY are a part of history and saving them is important. Thank You. zAlso love the whistles, but would have enjoyed seeing what they look like and how you are operating them. 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Nice video, the sound level on the first one is the same decibel level as a 747 at take off down a runway, my brother use to work in aircraft maintenance in Montreal and showed me one of these retired sitting in a fenced in lot belonging to the DOD and rusted to pieces, a shame in Canada they were replaced by electric motor powered units 150 feet above the ground on massive steel poles with a custom concrete foundation, there was one about a mile north of my parents house and when they would test them they would put in the newspapers and on every radio station 5 days or so leading up to the test and we were all told to stay indoors during the tests so no one would get hearing damage and they would get up to speed much faster than the old Hemi motors did and seemed a bit louder to, they've all been removed sometime back in the 70's or 80's, bygone era
Remember a kid at 12:00 noon every Wednesday that same siren would sound off for five minutes..late fifties. It's still there 50 feet up in the air on four steel posts...valve covers missing..
Those big sirens are pretty rare. You thinking about restoring them and storing them indoors when they aren't on display or out for demonstration? Granted, they spend their whole lives outside but the elements take their toll on everything and those look and sound like they could use some TLC.
We had one of the Chrysler sirens on the top of the hills above my hometown in the Los Angeles area. I remember when they would set it off on test days back in the 60's. It would slowly spin around and when the sound came back around it was almost like it could knock you over!
Given how much improvement there has been in audio technology, I would bet that an electonic siren could beat that now. We have car stereos that can hit nearly 180db, class D amps that are more than 90% efficient, neodymium magnets that are much stronger than anything that could have been used back then and better high temperature adhesives to hold the voice coils together, carbon fiber speaker cones and 3D printing that can make horns that could bever have been made back then. We truly stand on the sholders of giants...
I remember when we had these on top of all the firehouses in the cities and towns around the SAC bases and silos They were on a gear drive that went around 360 degrees When it sounded we had to drop everything and run to the bunker and seal the blast doors and air intake valves Very very stressful I still remember the night we got the official SAC EAM to standby around 1am They never told us what happened But I think we were closer to WW3 in that hour than we have ever been before I heard from pilots that thry were on the runway running and they were radio silence waiting for the green light in the tower If they had gotten that light, 15 minutes later they would have dropped all their nukes on the targets in the western hemisphere. Very stressful night And to this day they have not declassified what happened to cause us to go to DEFCON 1 that night
I need one of these for when my Hispanic neighbors start blasting their bongo music, I'm curious where these were placed, I thought they were up high on top of a building or tower for maximum coverage and did they rotate or were stationary.
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@Buzzard’s Breath Engine Nest you sure could. I do know there are people making the trip fron quite far away. I'm bringing my Wisconsin v4-powered. Mobil Directo, so having another gas siren there would be awesome, just saying
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Neighbor 10 miles away "there goes Bob and his damn horn again!" 😂
Siren farts
Lol
@@Team_Reaper. Air Raid Siren?
@@ricardomr.reporter-j6r huh ?
It’s incredible how the sound of the engine is instantly drowned out as soon as the siren starts spinning.
I like how everything in the 40's and 50s was huge, bizarre and ludicrously badass like who else would be creative enough to think of mounting an alarm siren onto a V8 hemi engine?
UPDATE: Since I just got another reply trying to explain the functionality and reasoning for the existence of the Chrysler siren, I'm going to go ahead and point out that I already know about this siren. I read all I could about it for the past 15 years and am fully aware of its purpose and locations. When I said "Who else would be creative enough to think of mounting an alarm siren onto a V8 hemi engine?", it was a rhetorical question.
Americans of course lol
@@TSAR2010what you brit you wanna stand up to us hmmm.
The boss of Bell laboratories and chrysler
@@GoodShockwave im american and i build crazy sh!t like this too
@@TSAR2010 oh sorry 😔 it's just the British and people in Europe talk about us that way I'm sorry 😥
Well that's Definitely one way to let the kids on the Ranch know that Dinner is Ready!!! 🤠👍
Although you may have the entire county coming for dinner, LOL
and maybe traumatise them XD
There is nothing more american then putting a V8 on a siren. xD So cool
Ls swap with twin turbos and we looking at 400 decibels 😃
Yes if it had a Bible and a gun.
An anti aircraft gun on the horn platform would be Xtra american
it was needed an to be done an used because these can go 400 miles per hour get 137dbs of sound out the back an can be heard for twenty five miles away which were perfect for towns city's an farm land an can be used through a nuclear bomb strike
@@spankthemonkey3437 Let's stick with hemis, shall we?
The way the world is going, we may need these again before long!
Agreed.
Yessir!!
China and russian missiles on the way to America unprovoked. And biden shutting down all defensive capabilities to welcome them from his owners.
How do we tell the difference between the real emergency and some guy in his back yard?
Dust em off 😂
We bought two just like it from the state auction in 1972 and I also have one powered by a 46 buick straight 8. All three work well, and my neighbors hate me lol
imagine having a nice time on your farmland and all of a sudden your neighbor is remaking the ww2
This particular siren is from the Cold War. So even more people would have heart attacks.
Amazing that you have two Chrysler sirens in full working condition, thanks for being one of the few to actually run them at full power. These were ride and die in their era, and might as well be a weapon in city limits today.
…lots of love,
Your next door neighbour
Xoxo
He's lucky to live out in the middle of nowhere which is why he can do it
Out of all the Chryslers I've seen on youtube, this one has the best sounding engine!
Rather, the best sounding horn ;)
This guy owns two of the most rarest sirens in the world Oh my goodness.
The Chrysler air raid alarm gives me the chills...
I bet the neighbors just absolutely love you 😂😂
Man… I love sirens but…at the corner of West Virginia (Ridgeley), there is a siren that plays every week for whatever damn reason and there are people who live right next to it.
It makes me deaf half a mile away. I’m not sure how those crazy people who live there can tolerate that damn thing.
@@Bassotronics "sirentooter344 posted: looking for deaf couple to rent duplex" 😂
@@EchoLog 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I wonder how many neighbors thought a hurricane, tornado, flood, fire or armageddon was imminent 😂😂😂
Anyone under 50 or so has no idea what that sound is 😂😂
@@MrTheHillfolkI’m 5 and a half years old and I beg to differ
@@Willbertoslackbold As a 3yo I'm with you there
@@MrTheHillfolkI think most American are aware what a siren is and what to do
Imagine you're out taking a walk as these guys are filming and you just hear a siren start up...
💩💭👌kkkkk
Duck for cover in a ditch 😂
You can imagine the Panic it creates when you live next to a Strategic Air Command Base!!! 🤠👍🇺🇲
better yet, the last three one and being very confused.
me and my friend had this happen when we we're about 15 and smoking a bit of weed in a field somewhere. We actually panicked and started running, not sure where we we're going though.
Gotta be the best recording of a Chrysler at full power in attack. Must’ve shook everything even at 500 feet from it lmfao. Also, I bet the wasps from all the nests in the horns got killed with the noise lmfao
I really love it that they gave it the full can of beans. Had that hemi singing! Seems like every other chrysler air raid siren video on YT the operator seems afraid to really give it full throttle
@@JerryWick I'm with you on that. Everyone else is trigger shy.
@@JerryWick yeah same
@@danielgoodman3578 Yeah. It's like a test of "are you American enough?"
@@kansasclocksandsirens what I'll give them is if they are concerned about burdening the neighbors (or if they lack hearing protection).
You know when the siren is powered by an engine and the guy chuckles as it starts up… its gonna be loud
the average siren on the roof of an old firehouse is 5-10 HP electric. Keep that in mind when seeing one of these running 150 HP.
Got to hand it to this guy, he let her rip full RPMs. Most owners of these Chrysler sirens are afraid to go full throttle! 🚨🚨🚨👍
I experienced that siren in person also. It made my guts quiver!
Lol, almost like a top fuel dragster!
I could only imagine the surrounding neighbors and counties reaction when they hear this, “it’s just Harold playing with his sirens”!😂
The way it farts out rust and dust 😂
Very cool, I bet this guy's neighbors love him,lol
FINALLY a modern high quality test video of a Chrysler.
Yes, most of them where in the 2000’s
It has been reported, that on a windless day, one of those could be heard up to 25+ miles away!
I can believe it
Wind carries sound. On a windy day you hear sounds that are usually too far away to reach you.
@@jacquesmertens3369 water carries sound better, ask those people in that submersible that wont be found alive 😢.
It's proven. There is a video on here where the person has a recording from I think 20 miles away.
I heard one at Cerro Negro in Glendale, California, once a month when I was in grade school in the 1960's. Several local sirens sounded at 11 AM on either the first Tuesday or a Thursday in the month if I remember. The Chrysler Bell ran for another 2 minutes or so after the other closer pole mounted air raid sirens went silent. I would guess it to be 16 miles away. The sound itself was terrifying and foreboding, like doom was at hand. These rotated on a chain driven turntable so the sound got louder and softer as it turned. I have no doubts that the sound carried 25 miles. I was on my bike leaning against a telephone pole waiting for my buddy to arrive one morning. The Federal Signal air raid siren on top of the pole went off and it scared the hell out of me. Its still on top the pole by Pinewood School. The hemi powered one is still on top of the hill at Cerro Negro.
70 year old man blowing a whistle by pulling a 100' long string: "I've never had this much fun before". Love it!
Best Chrysler Air Raid Siren recordings to date. Thanks for this!
We use thoes same sounding sirens here down under to call volunteer fire fighters in to town im 5km away and i hear plenty clear
Stunning! I could only imagine what this sounded and felt like.
This is perhaps the best video out there of a Chrysler running attack!
Amazing that it still works! If it was made in the 2000’s it’ll be already broken by now 😅
pretty surprising that these were even able to end up in the hands of private citizens. wish i had one to wake up my neighbors lol
Ive got neighbors that gripe😤 at every teeny-tiny thing, that would fix their griping PDQ!👍👍😁🤔🙄🤣🤣🤣🤣😲😱👍👍❗❗
Neighbors lol. That would wake an entire city. That's what it was designed for.
@@stewartengineering4009 yes, you're correct, in the dead of night at 1:30 a.m., just one of those would wake an entire city, let alone the dead in a cemetery. The town i live in has 4 ASC T-128s, if correctly placed, one of those Chrysler powered sirens would take the place of all 4 of them.
🤣 something tells me they'd move away that same night.
@@SOU6900 yep! Pretty much the whole subdivision would move out! (My thumbnail pic is me at Chicago Union Station, getting ready to board the PRR "General" just 7 months before Penn Central.)
That is insane. I remember hearing them test them when I was a kid
Hemi powered air raid siren.
I lived 100' away from the Indian point powerplant air horn in ny state as a kid. I remember that horn getting tested every year lol.
If I had one of these then everyone in my town would think a tornado is coming. Lol
It comes to mind because I did a bunch of research on hemis after poking around it a bit, but my grandfather had a DeSoto with a 341 'fireflite' hemi parked out back on his property. In the course of learning about them, I came across these sirens and would definitely enjoy owning one (or at least operating one) some day.
Hi Dale, I have been waiting many years to see a video like this of your stuff. The sirens run nice although my trailer and Chrysler look terrible. It would help after running to make sure that the chopper is positioned that the ports are closed. That will keep wasps, critters, dirt and debris out of the siren unit.
Hello, do have one of these Chrysler air raid sirens? I have been trying to find some contact info for Dale, or someone else that has one of these Chrysler units. Thanks!!
I carnt decide what’s best the chuckle at the start, the hemi, the siren or the fact that there hope for us all … still clowning around at 7O because you can 👍👍fantastic and good health for the future love it 😂😂
I finally remembered how the sirens I'd hear tested in my childhood in New Jersey sounded
I think it was one of these
Chrysler air raid siren Destroy crowd booing sound effect
Chrysler air raid siren Levels:
100% shaggy power
Usefullness: 100%
Gigachad
Louder than everything
Great Goat rating
Rating: THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!! THAT'S WHY HE'S MVP!!! THAT'S WHY HE'S A GOAT! THE GOAT!!!!!!!!
Dale you just gave every doomsday enthusiast within earshot a straight heart attack!!
You should be sure to make this available as a cellphone ringtone or alarm
Thats not just any ol hemi, thats a Fire Flite, found in DeSotos
Neighbours are happy to have u guys so that Siren will alert when the danger and Tornado is around
LOVE this. 🥰🥰. Very surprised that the cops didn’t show up though. 😂😂😂. Those old Hemi powered sirens REALLY are a part of history and saving them is important. Thank You. zAlso love the whistles, but would have enjoyed seeing what they look like and how you are operating them. 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Being Memorial Day I think they let it slide….for now
It’s a rural area. No noise complaints to be had
Except from the urban city 10 miles away!
One of those would be great to add into my siren collection 👀
that 331 CI hemi sounds very healthy
Their neighbors sure love them, specially when they turn on at maximum the sirens.
All of a sudden that hemi aint so loud no more
Loved that Chrysler straight 8 sound and the siren, his nearest neighbour is 10 miles away and grateful for it.
*hears V8 start*
“Is that his damn 69’ Charger again?”
*WW2 Noises*
I need that for my truck, the neighbours must love you
Nice video, the sound level on the first one is the same decibel level as a 747 at take off down a runway, my brother use to work in aircraft maintenance in Montreal and showed me one of these retired sitting in a fenced in lot belonging to the DOD and rusted to pieces, a shame in Canada they were replaced by electric motor powered units 150 feet above the ground on massive steel poles with a custom concrete foundation, there was one about a mile north of my parents house and when they would test them they would put in the newspapers and on every radio station 5 days or so leading up to the test and we were all told to stay indoors during the tests so no one would get hearing damage and they would get up to speed much faster than the old Hemi motors did and seemed a bit louder to, they've all been removed sometime back in the 70's or 80's, bygone era
Remember a kid at 12:00 noon every Wednesday that same siren would sound off for five minutes..late fifties.
It's still there 50 feet up in the air on four steel posts...valve covers missing..
Those big sirens are pretty rare. You thinking about restoring them and storing them indoors when they aren't on display or out for demonstration? Granted, they spend their whole lives outside but the elements take their toll on everything and those look and sound like they could use some TLC.
Cities do weird things with obsolete equipment. I have a friend who has a revolving airport locator light.
He should set it up in a cornfield and wait for evening and charge 20$ to enter the rave party 😂
Would be interesting to hose some water into the air inlet of the siren when it is going full noise. Expect quite a mist would come out.
We had one of the Chrysler sirens on the top of the hills above my hometown in the Los Angeles area. I remember when they would set it off on test days back in the 60's. It would slowly spin around and when the sound came back around it was almost like it could knock you over!
Was that the one in Glendale on top of Cerro Negro hill? We heard it in Sunland once a month.
@@kimmer6 Yes, that was the one!
This dudes devious laugh was everything
Given how much improvement there has been in audio technology, I would bet that an electonic siren could beat that now. We have car stereos that can hit nearly 180db, class D amps that are more than 90% efficient, neodymium magnets that are much stronger than anything that could have been used back then and better high temperature adhesives to hold the voice coils together, carbon fiber speaker cones and 3D printing that can make horns that could bever have been made back then. We truly stand on the sholders of giants...
That Hemi sounds SWEEET !!!!!
1:26 guys bro made the fart gun ( recommended not smelling it)
There were many in Portland when I was a teen. They wound up higher then, higher pitch and also rotated 360 deg.
A long time ago:
"Hurry turn on the siren there are enemy planes coming!"
"Well sir I hate to inform you that our siren ran out of gas."
Better then running out of electricity because the supply was bombed.
In siren bizz myself for years, its sure a fast way to meet the neighbors few miles away...
This is
Awesome 😎👍
Love how that thing roars to life and shakes off decades of dust as it shocks the neighbors to the core!😂
In any clip, you can see they they own two Chrysler victory bells.
It's crazy cause that V8 is arguably pretty loud, but when the siren is on you can't even hear a tad bit of it ! Awesome stuff
I remember when we had these on top of all the firehouses in the cities and towns around the SAC bases and silos
They were on a gear drive that went around 360 degrees
When it sounded we had to drop everything and run to the bunker and seal the blast doors and air intake valves
Very very stressful
I still remember the night we got the official SAC EAM to standby around 1am
They never told us what happened
But I think we were closer to WW3 in that hour than we have ever been before
I heard from pilots that thry were on the runway running and they were radio silence waiting for the green light in the tower
If they had gotten that light, 15 minutes later they would have dropped all their nukes on the targets in the western hemisphere.
Very stressful night
And to this day they have not declassified what happened to cause us to go to DEFCON 1 that night
1983?
Well, know we know who it would be...
What date was that?
I need one of these for when my Hispanic neighbors start blasting their bongo music, I'm curious where these were placed, I thought they were up high on top of a building or tower for maximum coverage and did they rotate or were stationary.
Love the steam train’s horn❤
Sure
Would love to be this guys neighbor 😂😂
6:50 I swear I heard oh “ooooh yeah” sex sound in there from the whistle. 🤣🤣🤣
With how things are going right now we will need these back fast. War is in the mist yall.
America is fine because we have all the same sirens but other countries have digital sirens now and can be hacked probably
A Chrysler Bell siren mounted over a pickup truck would clear out all of the Just Stop Oil protesters instantly.
Supercharger??
That's actually a genius idea. 😂👍
And keep em on other side of borders
Hope you didn't have noise complaints from that siren because it can be heard over 80 km away.
I would think it would be illegal to use one of these in a populated area. You could cause a panic.
How far in miles is 80km? These could be heard 25 miles away on a windless day at full power!
@@paulsmith5398 50 miles
@@unbanned6175 yes, you are correct, i have also read that, but i was being conservative, just to be on the safe side.
I picture the neighbors running to take cover :D lol
And then when a legitimate siren blows, they ignore it thinking it's just the neighbor playing with his toys again. 🙄🙄
Im sure he doesnt do it ALL the time.
I've always wanted to own a Chrysler. Just because of how loud they are
That would be cool tho, until one day you run it up and the cops show up
Learn something new every day!
Man I want that to blast my noisy ass neighbors with.
Would be ideal for that. I have a friend that wants one now for that reason!
Lol
that sounds terrifying.
Oh shit i bet the people around just loved that. Go out at 2AM and lite thing off💥💥👹👹👺👺🧨🧨🦨🦨💣💣
fun fact: the worlds loudest bird can scream as loud as an average siren
It sounds like one too lmfao. But the rating wasn’t from 100 feet tho. That is prb like right under the bird
So what
“How many volts does your siren use?”
“Uhm, Three liters.”
00:18 That laugh says it all.
The guy running the engine is risking his life for sure that thing could blow up😊 period very impressive
This siren needs to be sent to Ukraine to deprive the Russians from sleeping. I would say about 5 of these could end the war in no time.
It would be music to their ears
man i wish i had one of these to serenade my neighbors as 3 am in the morning.
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Like that shes made exactly right now.... Amazing color and amazingly fast spining....
Would you guys ever consider bringing either of the chryslers up to SirenCon in northern WI?
that would be awesome! but a little too far, maybe we will start one here in Ohio?
@Buzzard’s Breath Engine Nest you sure could. I do know there are people making the trip fron quite far away. I'm bringing my Wisconsin v4-powered. Mobil Directo, so having another gas siren there would be awesome, just saying
Well there’s an interesting way to piss off the neighbors. 😂
I find it weird that you can still kind of hear the engine while it’s engaged to the chopper
Yeah. At some points you can hear the engine while it was running.
Different frequency.
That cameraman's evil laugh when the engine shows signs of life and also i want one as my alarm clock lol
I think theres still a Chrysler unit atop one of the municipal buildings in Rochester NY
That siren is bad ass, I've seen pictures of one but never seen them operate.
I need one of these aimed at my neighbors house... LOL
All the videos I've seen this is the best way to get rid of a wasp nest.
I need one of these on my scooter to warn lawless minibus taxis. 😁 Your neighbours must love you.
The small town I grew up in had a powerful siren on top of the firestation. It would go off every day at noon and let you know it was lunch time..