I was looking at a W126 560SEC and on the lower console by the gear shifter was a button with an exclamation looking symbol pointing sideways. What does it do?

is the button red?

city/country horn switch. Push it and blow the horn, it should be louder.

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For those scary mountain passes where whoever honks first has right of way.

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Interesting feature. Was it always an option on the W126s?

The two tone horn was optional equipment for W123s, W126s, W201s, early W124s and I believe early W140s.

And by two tone I mean selectable town or higway tones (as mentioned before by 79Mercy), as most Benzes do come fitted with a two tone horn standard (high and low tones that sound together).

Basically, the town/city horn was a single or double electric unit and the highway/country horn was air operated (which sounded much more louder).

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Even earlier...my dad's 71 280SE has that feature...

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