I need a pair of horns for my 69 camaro restoration. Are these specific to camaro and any other years the same? My car is a early build date, 9B 68. I am sure finding a pair with the correct dates will be difficult.
Jim

If your not looking for a date correct set, I bought a set from our sponsor (upper right corner of current page) and they are very nice. Only problem I had was I had to rotate the upper half of horn as the bracket was not correctly set.

Thanks for the info. I will order a set. I disassembled this car 18 years ago and they either got lost or were never on the car. I see you also have a 69Z28. Mine is finally about done and after years of work and parts searching I think these horns are the last thing I need! Numbers correct car but I can always swap these out if I happen to find a set with correct dates sometime.

Contact Gary at Classic Car Horns he might have rebuildable cores in stock. I just sent my 68 horns and several rebuilable cores and he returned a nice matching set. He does very very nice work!!!

http://www.classiccarhorns.com

Mike

If you're in to correctness, the "replacement horns" look nothing like the originals and it's one of the first things people see when you pop the hood.

If you have that nice of a car I would look for correct horns IMO.

:yes:

I dont have any P/Ns handy, but this is how the originals look:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/RamAirDave/GoldZ/100_2404.jpg

This is a fine example of striving for 'correctness' at the risk of safety. My horns, new, were never loud enough to be heard by ANYBODY! I lost count of the number of times I was nearly run off of the road because people would change lanes into me and not hear my 'horns'. After 10 years of that I installed a set of air horns. They're chrome too!:cool: But the relay is still original. The buzzer works too.:yes:
http://epitomesrebuild.com/images/138.JPG

Must have been something wrong with them or connections/relay Fred.. My stock horns are way-loud and sound great.

They are stamped 289 and 290. Try Gary at Classic Horns, he may have them.

Hawk5375:
You did't say if you still had the orginal horns. If you do try this trick. Take the houn and pour about a 1/4 cup of WD-40 down the mouth of the horn and then slowly rotate the horn so that the WD drains to the center of the horn. Let it set for 24 hours then throught the 12 volts to it. They may sound sick at first but repeat this and you might find that thier performance will improve. Mine would not make a noise and after this, they sound like a locomotive - good luck:beers: :thumbsup:

Wow guys thanks for all the replies. Yes I think I will source out some original horns. I agree they are right there when you open the hood and with everthing else I have done to restore this car they should be correct. I do not have the originals.
69 Z28 RS, hugger orange white stipes, spoilers, std black interior, enduro bumper, manual steering, tach with center fuel gauge, no console.
I sure wish I would have found this site earlier as you guys would have been a huge help with this project.

Must have been something wrong with them or connections/relay Fred.. My stock horns are way-loud and sound great.

Could be Steve. I was but a child back then. And they came that way NEW so I had nothing to compare to. They were just another component to improve upon. Kinda like those shiney chrome LEAKY valve covers. Or that 'less than the best' aluminum high-rise intake. Sold it for $35.00 in '73. Hadn't used it in 3 years so 'what the hell'? And the original block. Sold it for $450 in about '75 I think. After the valve seat fell out of one of the exhaust ports while the engine was idling in my drive way and destroyed the piston and cracked the block. So I said 'what the hell?' I just redid my L88 with new open chamber stuff and stuck it in. Why not? The warranty had expired. And the original block still had the honing marks in the cylinder walls at 75K miles. (the alloy was too hard, burned a quart of oil like clockwork, every 500 miles) That's when I learned from the machine shop that was repairing the block that it was cast on the very day I turned 21. (the car was a present to me from me on my 21st BD) 'What the hell'? I had bought the 427 before I bought the car. I had planed a swap. I later cleaned up those first aluminum heads and sold them for $1500.00. My newer open chambers measure humongous X huge so 'what the hell'?
See the reference point I was operating under Steve? Few of us were sure these cars would be classics back then. I wasn't worried about a couple of dim horns. (I think they are around some place. My mothers house still has LOTS of stuff) But the rest of the car is pretty much original. :hurray: Hell, all but 5 LIGHT BULBS are original.
Of course this week I ordered my new aluminum drive shaft. Yesterday I removed the 12 bolt input yoke. It's getting a bigger one. But I'm keeping the old parts!;) We were talking about horns weren't we? I feel like I'm at a swap-meet!
(And Steve, the relay is original. Works great. Buzzes too.)

As mentioned in an earlier post, do business with this guy: http://classiccarhorns.com/index.html. You won't be sorry, I promise! When I took my car in for inspection, four our five old guys with hearing aids flew off their chairs when the guy doing the inspecting pressed the horn button. Everyone in the place agreed they are plenty loud!