6V & 12V trivia again

[Roy B.]

Year Horn Part Numbers
1953681 & 682 6V1954687 & 688 6V - white

1955759 & 760 12V - red -
1956 -1957339 & 3401958 - 1960351 & 3521961 - 1962441 & 442

Red insulator 55 up 12V
White 54 6V


Ever wonder why a 6V horn Insulator is white, while the first 12V in 1955 the insulator was RED
OR
The 6V voltage regulator came with no RED tag that the first 1955 did.

1955 was the first year for Chevy having a 12V system so that you could tell a 6V from a 12V , like the headlight bulbs 6V nothing on the glass cover while 12V was embossed in the glass cover





This may mean nothing to some people but I love little details , that's why I post trivia now and then, hope some like them.

[Pat M.]

Re: 6V & 12V trivia again

Hi Roy. Although I know nothing about C1s, I always find your informative posts and photos very interesting. It's also great to have this knowledge preserved in the archives. Keep 'em coming.

[Mike B.]

Re: 6V & 12V trivia again

Roy,

Could the tag color difference indicate a switch in polarity for ground? I used to own a few old British sports cars that had "earth" as the positive pole.

Mike

[Roy B.]

Re: 6V & 12V trivia again

Pat I find it interesting that many C2 owners respond with interest, then C1 owners ,about the archives ? what and where is that info kept.

[Roy B.]

Re: 6V & 12V trivia again

Roy,

Could the tag color difference indicate a switch in polarity for ground? I used to own a few old British sports cars that had "earth" as the positive pole.

Mike

No that not it

[Pat M.]

Re: 6V & 12V trivia again

Pat I find it interesting that many C2 owners respond with interest, then C1 owners ,about the archives ? what and where is that info kept.

And I'm a C3 and C4 owner, so go figure!
Each member's posts are retained on this site and can be accessed through the archives button when you first log on.
Under the old format archival pictures apparently were perishable, because when I looked up stuff it was clear that pictures had been attached to some posts but were no longer there. I hope this new format will preserve the pictures as well as the text of each post.
The archives are really a wonderful resource for saving irreplaceable knowledge like yours.

[Stuart F.]

Re: 6V & 12V trivia again

Has anyone else ever used a 6v horn on their 12v Vette to make it louder? I still have one on my 63 today cause it's a sound of the 60's to me. Back home in "Podunk" Wisconsin it was very common. Course, I still have my original 12v in a box. Heck! I've even had air horns on mine when they were popular.

Stu fox

[Roy B.]

Re: 6V & 12V trivia again

Yes you can use a 6V horn in a 12V system like a 6V coil if needed for a short time . But like I said the change over in 1955 from a 6V system to a 12V was confusing to some mechanics back then so some parts where logoed or taged to help people .That may be the reason the 55 Corvette coil was not painted

[Jean C.]

Re: 6V & 12V trivia again

Has anyone else ever used a 6v horn on their 12v Vette to make it louder? I still have one on my 63 today cause it's a sound of the 60's to me. Back home in "Podunk" Wisconsin it was very common. Course, I still have my original 12v in a box. Heck! I've even had air horns on mine when they were popular.

Stu fox

Stu, not on a Corvette, but I had a '50 Chevy with a 265 in it and ran 6V horns on the 12V system. I never had a problem but after selling the car to a friend, I was at the local burger stop one night when he was there and honked the horn and it "stuck"...what a racket. Finally quieted down when something in the circuit self destructed.
Best regards,

[Stuart F.]

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Charlie;

We've spoken about this before. My 50 Chevy with first a 265 then a 58 fuelie also had the 6v horns. Guess that may have been my first exposure to them. What did you use for a gas gauge? I used the 6v w/a switch so I could take a quick peek.

Stu Fox

[Jean C.]

Re: 6V & 12V trivia again

Charlie;

We've spoken about this before. My 50 Chevy with first a 265 then a 58 fuelie also had the 6v horns. Guess that may have been my first exposure to them. What did you use for a gas gauge? I used the 6v w/a switch so I could take a quick peek.

Stu Fox

Stu, I do not recall that I did anything to convert the fuel gauge from 6V to 12V and likewise do not recall that it suffered a user induced early demise. Only thing I recall changing were bulbs. Heater remained 6V but never used it much on the Gulf Coast plus the modified firewall leaked so much that the interior of the car remained shall we say, toasty. Those were the days!
Best regards,

[Gary C.]

Re: 6V & 12V trivia again

Pat, photos was one of the biggest reasons the TDB software was upgraded along with the fact the old software was not supported/manufacture discontinued. John and Rob worked long and hard to try to get all of the old photos pulled into the new TDB. First they had to correlate and convert the "alias's" user names used on the old forum to "real" names on the new one by using e-mail addresses. Secondly, they wrote a program to retrieve the photos from the links to where the photos were posted such a tinypic or photobucket. Of course if the old forum user name couldn't be matched, the photos had been removed, etc. they weren't pulled over. A job well done by John and Rob enabled the new TDB to have as much of a photo archive as there is from the old forum photos. Gary....

[Pat M.]

Re: 6V & 12V trivia again

Pat, photos was one of the biggest reasons the TDB software was upgraded along with the fact the old software was not supported/manufacture discontinued. John and Rob worked long and hard to try to get all of the old photos pulled into the new TDB. First they had to correlate and convert the "alias's" user names used on the old forum to "real" names on the new one by using e-mail addresses. Secondly, they wrote a program to retrieve the photos from the links to where the photos were posted such a tinypic or photobucket. Of course if the old forum user name couldn't be matched, the photos had been removed, etc. they weren't pulled over. A job well done by John and Rob enabled the new TDB to have as much of a photo archive as there is from the old forum photos. Gary....

Kudos to all involved in the transfer, and for making it so much easier to post pictures now. Descriptions are great, but a picture really is worth a thousand words. How did you guys restore anything before all of this existed?

[Roy B.]

Re: 6V & 12V trivia again

Pat, photos was one of the biggest reasons the TDB software was upgraded along with the fact the old software was not supported/manufacture discontinued. John and Rob worked long and hard to try to get all of the old photos pulled into the new TDB. First they had to correlate and convert the "alias's" user names used on the old forum to "real" names on the new one by using e-mail addresses. Secondly, they wrote a program to retrieve the photos from the links to where the photos were posted such a tinypic or photobucket. Of course if the old forum user name couldn't be matched, the photos had been removed, etc. they weren't pulled over. A job well done by John and Rob enabled the new TDB to have as much of a photo archive as there is from the old forum photos. Gary....

Gary! I deleted most pic's I posted on the older forum and now use photobucket ,do I need to keep them up in photobucket or can I delete them and you still have them.
I get so many people asking me to send pic's on their e-mail box so they can save them. Thanks

[John H.]

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Gary! I deleted most pic's I posted on the older forum and now use photobucket ,do I need to keep them up in photobucket or can I delete them and you still have them.
I get so many people asking me to send pic's on their e-mail box so they can save them. Thanks

Roy -

I use Village Photo as my photo host, and have never taken one photo down; for about $3.00 per month, I can have about 6,000 photos hosted, with unlimited daily transfer bandwidth. That was necessary on the old Board, as it was the only way to post photos.

With the new Board, I just upload photos direct from my hard drive (so they stay here) unless I've uploaded it before (the Board software won't let you upload the same image twice). When that occurs, I just upload it to Village Photo and post it full-size from there. Or, you can "beat the robot" by renaming the image and re-sizing it slightly - then you can upload the same image again.