Sounds that take you back...

[chaseracer]

What sounds take you right back to your automotive formative years?  A few of mine...

 

Straight-cut gear whine

Morris Minors farting on the overrun

The clang of an ADO16 door shutting

The click as a BMC starter engages

The burble of a big petrol-engined van

[John F]

The sound (and smell) of two-stroke motorbikes.

 

There don't seem to be all that many left, apart from a few scooters. But they don't really count,

[Christine]

 FS1e at full chat

KH250 with microns at full chat

SU fuel pump ticker ticker

[Volksy]

The hollow tinny clang of a Mk1/2 Fiesta door being slammed.

Aircooled engines.

Metro/Mini gearbox whine.

Viscous coupling fans roar.

[Bren]

Cammy OHC fords

 

Crumpling metal - another mate has parked his Mk2 Escort in Somebody's living room.

 

Tinny mk 3 escort doors.

 

Dripping water into an SD1

[Vantman]

Commer or Foden two stroke diesel on full chat.

[Christine]

Two tone siren  

 

Ohh and colonel  bogie air horns 

[the judge]

Mk2 escort starter moaning when it starts. Wooowhhhhaaarrr

[dollywobbler]

Voith retarder allied to a Gardner 6LXB.

 

[Asimo]

Simca / Chrysler / Talbot pushrod engines thrashing their valvegear to death.

 

VW Beetles with original exhaust tail pipes that made that whistle.

 

Screech of panic-locked rear wheels.

[jonny69]

The sound of my mum swearing because whatever piece of rubbish sat on the drive wouldn't start.

 

To be fair, though, out of all of our cars it was only ever the Seat Ibiza that wouldn't start in the morning. Something to do with the automatic choke.

 

But yeah, hearing the neighbours endlessly cranking their cars in the morning. That takes me back. You don't hear that any more - not unless you live next door to me anyway.

[jonny69]

VW Beetles with original exhaust tail pipes that made that whistle.

 

Why do original Beetle exhaust pipes make that whistling sound?

[castros_bro]

Berkeley B90 3 cylinder Excelsior on expansions chambers being driven on private* roads.

[scruff]

Mk 1/2 Fiesta engines.

Cortina mk5 wipers

[scaryoldcortina]

Milk float whine and clank of bottles at 7am every morning (except sundays)

[John F]

Backfires. Gone since fuel injection & DIS packs.

[fordperv]

Squealing fan belts

The sound of a cvh turbo exhaust note

A nova with a big exhaust

A pinto winding over and refusing to start

[brickwall]

Vauxhall Chevette "singing" exhaust.

[M'coli]

Backfires. Gone since fuel injection & DIS packs.

I miss this too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHYX8RY0Cfw

[Tetleysmooth]

V8 burble

[Junkman]

The distinctive Renault 16 wailing sound.

The distinctive BMW M10 whistling sound.

Mercedes single cam l6 sound.

Magirus Deutz air-cooled diesels.

[mercrocker]

Bedford TK air brake whistle

 

Clacking Chrysler Alpine cam gear

[Inspector Morose]

Bedford coach noise

The fart of a Sherpa exhaust

Daimler Fleetline top gear whine

The melodious whine of an AEC pre-select in neutral

The wail of a Bristol VRT in top

Proper large Diesel engined lorries and buses

Non synchro (straight cut) first geared cars starting away

[the judge]

XR2 barking noise

[Twiggy]

The sound of an old dial phone.

[Alan_Green]

BL Start then belt noise: https://youtu.be/Fq0xt_gbVH0?t=6m54s

 

[Clanger]

Two tone siren  

 

Ohh and colonel  bogie air horns 

Yours from Amazon for under $50

http://www.amazon.com/Wolo-416-Euro-Emergency-Vehicle/dp/B000BNH0HM/ref=sr_1_1?s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1441128533&sr=1-1&keywords=Wolo+%28416%29+Euro+Emergency+Vehicle+Horn

[cros]

The hissing miss-fire sound of Ford sidevalve v8 when riding in my old man's 6 wheeler WOT at the age of 3. This Rod-braked device had a body similar to the one in the picture and was loaded to the top which must have meant that it was being operated at about twice its design weight. I was lucky to see my forth year.

[HH-R]

Mk2/3 Fiesta rattly engines

MiniMetro pulling away in 1st gear

Gardner 6LXB on tickover

The indicator on warning buzzer old buses used to have, could hear it standing outside EERRR-EERRR-EERRR

Screaming back axle on Bristol VR

Neighbour's crappy Maestro never starting (ha ha)

[Christine]

"Would you like a cigarette ? "   dont hear that anymore