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Re: It's not a slot car but it's a Cox

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 4:24 pm
by HomeRacingWorld
Had one! Very cool.

Re: It's not a slot car but it's a Cox

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 4:47 pm
by waaytoomuchintothis
They make little mufflers for that .049 these days...

Re: It's not a slot car but it's a Cox

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 4:48 pm
by goosenapper
Please post a video of this once you get it running. :pray:

At first, I thought you meant a tether car. I've never seen one of these before.

Re: It's not a slot car but it's a Cox

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 5:14 pm
by waaytoomuchintothis
Did you have the yellow and blue PT-19 trainer with dual cockpits? That was my treasure.

Re: It's not a slot car but it's a Cox

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 5:30 pm
by BRP32
I had a black with flames '57 chevy gas powered .049 car back in the day and a green WWII airplane on a control line also with an .049 engine.

Those were the days!

Wayne (Bolton's Speed Shop) :D :D :D

Re: It's not a slot car but it's a Cox

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 5:40 pm
by LAMing
Oooo... COOL! A Cox powered car!

I had several of their airplanes:

Super Cub
Helldiver
Skyraider
PT-19

Tore all of 'em up "enjoying" them!

Went from those to building balsa kits. I still fly control line every now and then with the larger .35 and .36 sized engines. My daughter and wife can fly basic control line too. (Actually, the daughter had progressed to loops, figure eights, etc.)

Re: It's not a slot car but it's a Cox

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 5:50 pm
by TsgtRet
I had the P40 and the Stuka...both eventually got crashed one too many times. I remember the Stuka had that extra string to release the plastic bomb (what were you supposed to hit with that?) I recall a couple of friends had the Wenmac(?) "Prop Rod" tether cars....can you see them selling those today?

Very cool Dave....no mercy for the neighbors! (Just remember you live in the "Peoples Republik of Kalifornia" and there's probably a squad of "Unsafe Toy Police) :violence-stickwhack: :violence-smack: .

Re: It's not a slot car but it's a Cox

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 6:17 pm
by waaytoomuchintothis
An .049 powered Tonka truck. Genius. What can I say?

Re: It's not a slot car but it's a Cox

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 6:51 pm
by BRP32
Back in the day, we use to attach model rocket engines to weighted down model cars and shoot them down the street too!

What fun that was especially when one decided to go airborne do a 180 in mid air and come shooting back at you!!!!

WOOHOO the excitement!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Model rockets and experimentation there of was big with my friends and I years ago.

Kids don't know the fun they are missing out on nowadays that we got to enjoy back then......

I think I have my little nephew hooked on slots though.....

I think he had me pull every car down off my shelves and run it at least one time while he was over. We ran cars for well over two hours that day. He is into cars..... He has quite the collection of hot wheels and will be receiving from me a Ho slot car set on a table for Christmas this year....

He is a good kid!

Image

Wayne (Bolton's Speed Shop)

Re: It's not a slot car but it's a Cox

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:21 pm
by dge467
That is neat! You guys should have fun with that! I remember a friend and I putting a Estes rocket engine on a Hess truck, it didn't end well.

Re: It's not a slot car but it's a Cox

PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:57 pm
by dreinecke
I loved those things! I can still close my eyes and smell the fuel...

Re: It's not a slot car but it's a Cox

PostPosted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 12:27 pm
by TsgtRet
Is that one of your kids with that deep laugh? :mrgreen: Looks like all it needed was a little TLC!

Re: It's not a slot car but it's a Cox

PostPosted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:48 pm
by dge467
COOOOOL! :music-rockout:

Re: It's not a slot car but it's a Cox

PostPosted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 8:45 pm
by dreinecke
My dad had a Cox P-40 airplane on a tether. Very cool toy. It went up and augered right in...loved that thing though.

Bummer on the gear...can you get another?