Story of the Day

Listening to the sounds made by various vehicles on your street can be fun. If you live in a city you can guess what is going by but you don't really know unless you've tied a visual in with the audio. Using a street viewing window is cheating. Try to guess what a car looks like by it's sound. You may be right more often than you would at first expect.

Some obvoius categories of vehicles include V-8 powered Amurcun Ahrn. Especially if it has been hopped up. In some senses it is amazing that you can still find some of that in this day of emissions inspection stations. Hey, one just went by. Very often when you hear the throb of the big engine now it is in a truck or truck derived four-wheeler.

Another group that is distinctive is the "boom" car. A boom-box on wheels. Of course all you can hear in your home is the bass. But that goes right through the foundation. Usually the car or small pickup is low to the ground and cheap to operate and usually very small.

I am sure everybody can identify a garbage truck. Even in the Age of Recycling the sounds that come from a garbage truck can't be mistaken.

January 26, 1996

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