"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
05/05/2018 at 09:00 • Filed to: sfx, movies, tv, ad watch, music videos, the red green show, red green
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"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
05/05/2018 at 09:00 • Filed to: sfx, movies, tv, ad watch, music videos, the red green show, red green | 0
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Found another one (I think)!
This clip from a 1997 episode of
The Red Green Show
gives us what I believe to be another sample of
!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
. In this episode from season 7, Red shows us how to make a spare tire using old shoes. And to prove its effectiveness, he starts the car and drives away at the end of the segment.
Despite what you might expect from ol’ Red, the car starts up right away. So there’s not much to hear. When he turns the key at 3:37 in the clip above, the sound is over almost as soon as it begins. But I think it’s the same one, just without the repeated cranking that we’re used to hearing at the beginning of the sound effect.
This 6th-gen Cougar (apparently an ’83-’86 model) is the first !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! of vehicles dubbed over with this “crank-helm” sound file. But it also marks the fourth FoMoCo product, so you can interpret that however you want...
Dogsatemypants
> Urambo Tauro
05/04/2018 at 20:31 |
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Love the RGS. K car abuse at it’s finest. #possumlodge #ducktape
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Dogsatemypants
> Dogsatemypants
05/04/2018 at 20:42 |
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https://youtu.be/F6FwSb7zd6M
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Urambo Tauro
05/05/2018 at 07:37 |
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gullwing doors!
dcp
> Urambo Tauro
06/05/2018 at 10:43 |
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Lol. I was looking through your Saab post history and came across this one. Fun fact, starter sounds are one of those weird things I paid a lot of attention to, especially as a kid. I am pretty good at identifying the manufacturer, if not the engine, of a lot of startup sounds from most American vehicles (and some imports) built between the mid 80s to mid-2000s... a lot of newer cars sound virtually identical (or have no sound at all, thanks hybrids!), so my honed skill is getting less and less useful.
Anyway, that actually sounds an accurate starter sound for that vehicle, at least to me. That Cougar likely has the venerable pushrod 5.0 V8 under the hood. My dad had a ‘91 F150 with the 5.0 engine which sounded very similar. Some examples:
And this is the closest one I found that matches what I remember (and the video you posted):
NB: I’ve noticed the tone of those starters changes quite a bit with age (or battery charge), so these examples may not sound exactly the same. Not to mention a lot of those vehicles that are still around have likely had their starters replaced, but the above examples are definitely original (or junkyard-pulled) OEM starters.
As a side note, around ‘92, when Ford moved to the modular V8 line for most vehicles, they kept the pushrod engines in the F-series trucks and the Mustang GT, but changed the starter for the 5.0/5.8. So the starter sound for the SN-95 Mustang and 92+ F150 sound completely different than the 80s models above. For example:
Also, from your previous post you linked, the only video still available is that music video, and the starter sound at the beginning is different than those in this post. I’d say it is almost definitely from an American vehicle, probably sourced from earlier than the mid-80s (so before my time). Could still be FoMoCo, but I can’t pinpoint it.
My favorite starter sound of all is anything with a V12. From my understanding, with all those cylinders cancelling each other out, the starting force required is a lot more consistent throughout each revolution of the engine. So there isn’t as much of a “chugging” noise, and the starter is able to spin faster. The resulting sound is super exotic.
Ok, I’ll get off my soapbox. It’s just one of those skills I never really get to talk about (and if I do bring it up, I just get weird stares). So it’s cool to be able to share it with folks who might find it interesting.
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Urambo Tauro
> dcp
06/05/2018 at 21:06 |
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This is awesome! Too bad that truck in that third video starts so promptly. Makes me want to find something like that with an old SBF and pull the fuel pump fuse so that I can listen to it crank some more.
functionoverfashion
> dcp
06/05/2018 at 22:03 |
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I’m with you there. I remember in college, there was a parking lot behind an apartment I lived in, and I could identify pretty much every car back there when it started up, just from the sound.
The later Ford starter is the same as the engine my old boat had. I miss that sound.
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dcp
> functionoverfashion
06/06/2018 at 15:29 |
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Exactly! I’m glad to know I’m not alone with this, I mean it’s just basic observation. I used to weird out my ex (who was into cars as well) with my ability (until then I didn’t realize it was apparently unusual).
“Oh, that was a Toyota 1MZ in either a Camry, Solara, Avalon, Sienna, or Lexus of some sort” “4.0 AMC straight-six in a Jeep!” “Definitely a Dodge V8, so probably either a Ram, Durango, V8 Dakota, or cargo van” (sounds similar to Chrysler V6 starters, but you can usually tell from the exhaust note) “Totally a early to mid 90s Ford 3.0 or 3.8 V6, probably a Taurus or could be a Windstar/Freestar, Lincoln Mark VIII, Cougar/T-bird or Sable,” “Unquestionably a Honda V6 in an Accord, Oddysey, Pilot, Ridgeline, or any number of Acuras,” “That’s a small block Chevy, could literally be in anything.”
Him, after validating I was correct: “How could you have known this?”
Me, shaking my head: “And you call yourself a car guy.”
Though I do have to give him some credit, he was always more willing to jump into some of the more complicated stuff under the hood than I.
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dcp
> Urambo Tauro
06/06/2018 at 17:16 |
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Yeah, it does fire up quickly. Probably a low-mileage and well-maintained example, so the starter has been understressed, hence why it sounds so close to stock to me. My grandfather had an ‘87 F150 that was beat to hell, and towards the end of its days sounded very different. Had a bad bearing in there somewhere, so you could hear the starter wind down once the engine (eventually) fired.
Ooh, while we’re on the subject (if still mostly off-topic), I have to bring up that “Old Maserati” episode of the Grand Tour. Ultimately a fairly stupid segment, but I die laughing every. goddamn. time. Jeremy turns over that red bi-turbo. Especially when he demonstrates it to Hammond at the beginning. No idea what happened to that heap to cause it to produce that sound, but it is comedic gold to me.