Thread: What Is Your "Holy Grail" Item?

Haha, remember to hook up a microphone to an old Whelen power supply so you get the double "Woop-woop" through the siren speaker to be REALLY authentic, Wigwam!

I'm not sure everyone knows what saying "that's my holy grail" means.....


Holy Grail - uniquely prized object of search or quest; high ideal
According to Arthurian legend, the Holy Grail was Christ's cup (or plate) at the Last Supper. It was then used by Joseph of Arimathea to catch some of Christ's blood at the Crucifixion and was brought by Joseph to North Wales, where it disappeared. Manifesting itself from time to time to a chosen few, the Grail became the object of sacred quest by the Knights of the Round Table, the three purest of whom finally received it from Christ's hands at the castle of Corbenic, from where they carried it to Sarras. Grail, an old word for bowl, cup or platter, now exists only in this context.


... there has got to be some level of searching involved, ie inherent difficulty. What I'm saying is you shouldn't have to come up with a new holy grail item every week. It's great that you are looking for a streethawk, but that's not a holy grail item. The better chocolate milk that's at the further away of two stores is not a holy grail item.... you are looking for the cup that caught the blood of Jesus, not the mt. dew can that caught the dip spit of your friend Carl.










This is meant as a semi-humorous rant... not an attack or admin action

I agree with you totally on this one, John. While not all our members are necessarily Catholic, it is well known that Catholics, Anglicans and the Orthodox use a chalice that has to be made from gold when concecrating the Precious Blood of Jesus at the Eucharist.

Originally Posted by CrownVic97

Haha, remember to hook up a microphone to an old Whelen power supply so you get the double "Woop-woop" through the siren speaker to be REALLY authentic, Wigwam!

My friend, Barry McRoy, who is the fire chief in Walterboro, SC, has one of the new Whelen sirens with the scanlock feature. I happened to be talking to him on his cell phone last night when he had to respond to a structure fire. That new Whelen has the "Powercall" sound and it is awesome!

Originally Posted by Skip Goulet

Could be, it's in France. This public computer I use won't pick up the photobucket photo you sent. But I'd bet that little critter gets up and scoots: Renault or not!

Yep, the car is a RENAULT 18 produced between 1979 and somewhere in the middle of the 80's. It could have been exported to US, but I'm not sure...

Originally Posted by JohnMarcson

I'm not sure everyone knows what saying "that's my holy grail" means.....


Holy Grail - uniquely prized object of search or quest; high ideal
According to Arthurian legend, the Holy Grail was Christ's cup (or plate) at the Last Supper. It was then used by Joseph of Arimathea to catch some of Christ's blood at the Crucifixion and was brought by Joseph to North Wales, where it disappeared. Manifesting itself from time to time to a chosen few, the Grail became the object of sacred quest by the Knights of the Round Table, the three purest of whom finally received it from Christ's hands at the castle of Corbenic, from where they carried it to Sarras. Grail, an old word for bowl, cup or platter, now exists only in this context.


... there has got to be some level of searching involved, ie inherent difficulty. What I'm saying is you shouldn't have to come up with a new holy grail item every week. It's great that you are looking for a streethawk, but that's not a holy grail item. The better chocolate milk that's at the further away of two stores is not a holy grail item.... you are looking for the cup that caught the blood of Jesus, not the mt. dew can that caught the dip spit of your friend Carl.










This is meant as a semi-humorous rant... not an attack or admin action

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The one in the middle, Ericka Eleniak from Bay Watch, this though was an awesome and funny movie!!!!

I badly want a 175 Hill-Light. It's getting into my bonnnnnneeessss...

Sireno 40010 or Mars Commander for me.

I'm fond of anything NOS.

Originally Posted by kadetklapp

I badly want a 175 Hill-Light. It's getting into my bonnnnnneeessss...

After getting off my other one to another member I just got another one with glass dome. I can cross that off my list.

I have a NOS black plastic adapter pictured here for the Visibeam. $20. plus shipping.
John Dorgan

Originally Posted by Skip Goulet

Could be, it's in France. This public computer I use won't pick up the photobucket photo you sent. But I'd bet that little critter gets up and scoots: Renault or not!

Originally Posted by theolog

Sireno 40010 or Mars Commander for me.

The big Sireno 40010 ( also known as an ED10) was one of the best sirens built. It was just slightly larger than a Q and would outcoast anything I've ever seen. Boardmember Henry455 has one and it's nice. I didn't care for the 10" Mars Commander, as it was not a coaster siren. I recenlty acquired a Mars 8" Commander which is nice, but also a non-coaster. I've always figured that if you have to run "hot", you need a good coaster siren. I saw a police car one time when I was a kid that was on an emergency run, and that car had a Federal 28 underhood (I'd seen that car one time with its hood up, so that's how I knew that). He was approaching a busy intersection when a car pulled out in front of him. He had to have taken his foot off the button momentarilly as he was hitting the brakes and maneuvering around the other car, because the siren rolled down suddenly as he found himself in the intersection. That was very dangerous!