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I've seen this steering wheel before but never knew what it was called or why it was designed this way.
1 posted on 08/18/2024 8:05:15 AM PDT by MAGA2017
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That damned auto shut off/start at lights. I HATE that system.


2 posted on 08/18/2024 8:10:11 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge )
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AKA, the Harris Wheel.

I miss the old ring that you used to blow the horn. You could find it in a microsecond by touchy. Today’s tiny keypads for blowing the horn are impossible to find.

Maybe that’s why you don’t hear car horns tooting so much any more.


3 posted on 08/18/2024 8:11:16 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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I call Adam the “Jay Leno of the Midwest.” He has a sizable collection of late 60s to early 70s mostly American cars. He likes Ford 460 engines, so he’s ok in my book.


4 posted on 08/18/2024 8:14:57 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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Is there a horn in my car? I can’t find it!


8 posted on 08/18/2024 8:24:34 AM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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My 69 Mach I had it.
Loved it!

Two hands on the wheel and simple thumb toot while smoking the tires


9 posted on 08/18/2024 8:26:18 AM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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Bring back HORN RINGS!................


10 posted on 08/18/2024 8:29:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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I had never heard of this. The inner part of the steering wheel rim was squeezable to sound the horn. Some of my cars had the button as the center of the rim. A couple had small buttons on the bar which I never could hit when I needed it.

I need a voice activated horn so I can swear at another driver and the horn will sound.

11 posted on 08/18/2024 8:31:27 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (7/13/2024:The day the Democrats and their SA chose assassination as their primary political tool.)
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The horn in my car is broken. Watch for finger.


14 posted on 08/18/2024 8:41:43 AM PDT by KingLudd
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My first car, which I got in 1943, had a horn attached to the front of the door frame and you had to reach outside to squeeze the big rubber ball that blew the horn...


34 posted on 08/18/2024 12:14:12 PM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
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Worst invention ATM.... you have to practically disassemble the engine to replace the timing chain driven water pump on a 2014 Ford Explorer with a 3.5 Ecoboost Twin-Turbo powerplant.

Stupid engineers should be forced to work on their designs for at least 6 months.


35 posted on 08/18/2024 1:24:51 PM PDT by LastDayz (A Blunt and Brazen Texan. I Will Not Be Assimilated.)
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Why it was designed this way

So the hands wouldn’t have to be taken off the wheel mainly for the women GM had one on the Olds maybe a another one.


36 posted on 08/18/2024 1:56:51 PM PDT by Vaduz
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