# Horns for the Grill of my Car

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horns-for-the-grill-of-my-car/398857>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 5, 2007, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horns-for-the-grill-of-my-car/398857 "2007-04-05T14:49:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horns-for-the-grill-of-my-car/398857/22 "2019-06-15T12:25:19Z")

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Your car already has a horn.

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**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horns-for-the-grill-of-my-car/398857/23 "2019-06-15T13:18:41Z")

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Oh christ I didn’t even look at the op date.

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**Author:** ![KMS94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ad7895/32.png) [@KMS94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KMS94)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horns-for-the-grill-of-my-car/398857/24 "2019-06-15T15:17:56Z")

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For a period in high school during the 80’s, I had a white-tailed deer skull as a hood ornament on my car, complete with a bandanna do-rag and “Cool Hand Luke” mirrored sunglasses. When I parked somewhere, people would often stick cigarettes in it’s mouth, but they’d blow away at speed. I had semi-regular contact with law enforcement back in those days, and one officer did look at it pretty close before seeing it was securely wired to the pre-existing hood ornament. He also asked if I had shot it myself. (I hadn’t, I had found it in the woods). With the benefit of hindsight, it seems rather redneckish today, but it was pretty cool among my peers in 1987 and started more than one conversation with strangers. :o

Cars are pretty generic these days, nothing wrong with “making it your own.”

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**Author:** ![K2500](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@K2500](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K2500)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horns-for-the-grill-of-my-car/398857/25 "2019-06-15T21:16:10Z")

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> [@lieu](#):
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> May I inquire _where_ you see that? I’ve driven all over Texas and have never seen them on a law enforcement car. Never have any of the law enforcement individuals I know, from an FBI agent to Texas Ranger to Highway Patrolman to DEA to city policemen ever displayed such non-essential hardwear either. All I can recall is seeing them once or twice on some yahoo’s Cadillac, so not that they don’t exist but their prominent display is anything but frequent.
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> There’s a very reputable place called [Jernigans](http://www.bumsteer.com/buyonline.htm) that sells horns that I suppose you could attach to your car. I’ve used them as taxidermists and they do nice work and have on-line sales.

Twelve years later and they’re still selling them [here.](http://www.bumsteer.com/steer_bull_horns.htm) just add lag bolts

I’ll add that I’ve only ever seen them on Big Texan Caddys and the odd truck here and there.

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