Tester coxs

[St.Louis-Dart]

growing up in the 70ies...alll my friends and i had coxs planes and cars...i had a rail that i cant find a picture of online but i did find the others
a corsair..-p-40 warhawk....funnycar pinto.....friends had dunebuggys..propellers cars...suedukas...early sat mornings when i was 12 you would
hear them them little gas engines screaming all around the neiborhood 

[abqdart]

I was still too young to play with them in the 70's BUT I did watch my older brothers and the kids in the neighborhood. I remember playing with them and I can smell the fuel and hear the compression of those little engines as I would turn them over by hand.

[65 Hemi]

A few years ago I was going through the junk in the cabinets in the garage and found my old Cox Vega funny car.  I still had all the accessories with it in the unopened pack, the parachute, string, nails for securing the string, fuel can and battery.  I put everything on ebay and got $360 for it.  More money for my Coronet and Dart!!

[nothingbutdarts]

Yea, I used to have one of the planes, never did get it to fly very well. I like stickin to 4 wheel vehicles!

                             

[Twister]

I had the planes and never made it around more than a few times before crashing.

Reading this jogged my memory, I can actually remember the smell. Was it a mild nitro mix?

[satellite65]

Yep. Nitromethane and oil. I had the Testors P51 Mustang. Flew it once then my German Shepard ate it

[Twister]

It's all coming back. The .049, many glow plugs later....it might start. Lucky to have fingers with that spring on the prop.

I want a time machine. I loved that stuff.

[Pedalkisses]

  I thought this was gonna be a perverted post!

[scaldeddog]

I had the P-40 Warhawk. On it's maiden flight it did a hard nose dive straight into the asphault and the engine fell out.

[chryco]

I had one too ! I think it flew once around and crashed . Mine was held together with elastics , so the carnage wasn`t too severe upon impact. Yup fingers still hurt from that dang prop. !
   Chryco

[west]

i had a bunch of that stuff.
my favs were the r.c. van,helicoptor and i had a propeller car that i could run on the street straight into large puddles then it would be an airboat. a wide open propeller zoomin down the street with absolutely no control 

[rarefish]

I had that same P-40 kit. The first time I tried to fly it it crashed and broke something. It had the spring loaded starting mechanism. When I released it, the prop spun but didn't start, at the end of the last spin it kicked back and started up in reverse. I thought something was weird because no wind was blowing back on my hand. My dad had the control handle and was yelling for me to toss it in the air. I launched it and it did a couple weird flips and came flying back at my head, sending me to the ground and then it crashed.

Years later, right after I got married, I built a balsa bi-plane called the Flying Fool. It was beautiful. I found a Cox .035 stuntmaster engine on sale and put it in the plane. I had to modify the fusalage to make it fit. My brother in law was heavey into RC planes. Multi engines and all. He said that the engine was way too big for the plane, and if I got it in the air it would make me spin around like a weather vain in a huricane. I guess he was right. The engine was designed to open the throttle when you pulled up to go into a roll. I got it off the ground and started to pull up a little just to get going and the throttle went wide open and in a milisecond it did 3/4's of a roll and smashed into the ground, so died the Flying Fool, Joe.

[JWSewell]

 I wasn't around for those lil' cox's!! LMFAO!!

 But I was into 1/10 Scale 2WD Nitro Truck racing for a while.  lil .12 engines running Alcohol with 30% nitro. They make 1 - 1.5 HP at about 28,000 RPM's. I gave all my RC stuff to my nephew Triston.   Fun stuff, but expensive for what it is!     I have less in my Scamp right now! 

[440Demon]

We had a few of those cars too.
My dad used to buy plastic toy cars and make
tube chassis for them and put cox motors
in them.
I think I still have one I will try to dig it up.
Also still have a cox  Baja Buggy I will try to get
some pictures soon.