Running the Cox .049 Top Fuel Dragster with Parachute ☆Plus Bench Test and Burnout☆

[@timrussell1559]

Used to spend so much time trying to get those old cox airplane engines running that the prop would be covered in blood from my cut up fingers. Still remember those cuts getting soaked in nitro fuel and it stung like fire. Those were the good ol' days. Miss them!

[@TemporalOasis]

I was totally thinking this just before watching this video.

[@mikalliz2167]

I can smell the fuelfumes now love those old cox 049s Lotsa memories

[@falcon4548]

As a kid back in the 70’s ..I’d start these great toys in my room , smoke up the whole place… the tenants upstairs would come down and pound on the stairwell door 👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼… what the hell are you doing in there ??!! … I’d yell my typical response…” Nothin”! 😂😂😂😈😈… good times .. the best toys 😊😊

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Nice story! Im still starting them in the house as you can see lol check my latest upload for circle tether running vette.😊..

[@falcon4548]

@@coxgaspoweredtether fantastic 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@sparkplug0000]

We were so lucky to have grown up in the 1960s and 70s! Today’s kids would have a dragster app on their phone. Hardly the same. Getting a Cox .049 engine running properly built character in a young person. I never had the dragster but I had a line controlled airplane, I think it was a P40 Warhawk. Spinning around in circles with that thing made me sick as a dog, but I’d do it over and over again. I wouldn’t trade my youth for anything.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

You got that right!

[@gregorydahl]

I still hake the engine from my p40 warhawk . Aluminum tank . Superbee or something i think . It runs off methyl alcohol and cod liver oil mix . 1½ volt battery to get the glow plug started

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

​@@gregorydahl yes thats the mix! Go for it..

[@VitalityMassage]

Yo Tommy! Dat was cool!

[@Petequinn741]

I used to have a black 57 Chevy ... Super fun as a kid. Pain in the neck to start..

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Was that the testers 57 Chevy?Maybe that's why it was hard to start...lol I'm not gonna lie. These things are finicky. They have to be set up just right , good battery. Good fuel, everything. Takes me a lot to get him in shape to run like this, believe it or not.

[@Petequinn741]

Yes it was..this just made me think how many times I had to crank the rear tire.. still really great toy

[@mikebaker9574]

I watched a kid try to crank that 57 all day when we were kids, he never got it to run. It was black also.

[@lottiecooper609]

Back in 1973 I had the cox purple chopper. Unfortunately it hit a garage door and broke the front forks. My mom bought it for me I was twelve years old at the time. She ended up throwing it away as she found it years later and thought it was junk. I wish I still had it!!! Thanks for sharing bro!!!

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Thanks, Love the stories...sorry bout ur chopper , those were cool. Front ends were delicate. At the time you could have sent away to Cox for new front end. LOL take care bro

[@sicks6six]

The exact thing happened to me, funny that, crazy mommas eh !

[@donchristie420]

Still got mine

[@bbcala9719]

I had the exact chopper and my brother had the baja bug. Those were great toys.

[@Leroys_Stuff]

You brought back memories to this old guy thank you

[@jdmackable]

Thanks so much for sharing, brought a big smile to my face. I grew up in the 70s and had lots of Cox powered toys. I still think about how much fun I had as a kid getting them running and tuned just right. Thanks again..

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@onazram1]

I had one of these, shoveled sidewalks and driveways to buy it. Come spring I set it all up in a huge parking lot across the street. It ran great and everything worked perfectly. I was packing it up when the neighborhood bully's came over and made me get it running and run it without the guild string cause they wanted to see how fast it went. It went really fast then hit a curb and crashed into a hundred pieces. They just laughed and split....

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Yup bullying was around back then too. I'm sorry to hear this story. But I do like hearing the stories and I hope you liked the video. Thanks for sharing.

[@IronheadGarage]

Super cool! Love the dragster. You must take them all apart and wash them up before putting them away I'm thinking. I always use warm soapy water for the body's and oil up the engine. Before storing them away. I left one before with out doing that and was a mess lol. Thanks for sharing have a good one 👍🏻

[@joedipietro2559]

Absolutely awesome Tommy. The old days were so great. Things werw way bettwr than they are now. You're a lucky guy to still have these okd cox nitro methane powered cars man. Cox doesn't exist anymore and these cars are extremely rare. Lucky guy.👍👌

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed...

[@waitfortheflash6286]

Back in the late 60s, my older brother had a Cox .049 powered GT40 that was made to run in a circle on a tether. Was a really cool car.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Nice thanks for watching and Check my other videos, Ive got tether 049 vette and GT40 UPLOAD coming this week!!😊

[@nealkrueger6097]

Brings back memories . Today's kids would get bored after three minutes. I hated that one couldn't find a replacement string in the right size. I had a 14l/ mile driveway and tried to run it on a longer line . Since the supplied line anchor pulled out of the ground and snapped off anout thirty feet of line .I finally toasted the engine when it suck up fist full of fine gravel . Toasting the liner and crankcase bearings. Then they later got scarce in dept stores.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Love the stories.thanks for watching!

[@harrybarry2291]

I did not know of the dragster. I loved these things growing up in the 50's and 60's and still do. I had several planes and the Cox "Water Wizard", a hydroplane for water. When they broke, I always saved the motors.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Great stories. THANKS FOR WATCHING 😅

[@northernutahlivesteam3566]

My brothers and I had all different kinds of Cox planes and cars. My fav was the dune buggy. Fun vid. Thanks for sharing.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jepolch]

I used to make my own wooden dragsters with Revell rubber model tires. Powered by Estes rocket motors. Lots of fun!

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Bro I just left a comment I put estes model rocket C engine on cox cars. Did the baja bug out the back with M80 fuse Lol. Perfect weight and tires..

[@jepolch]

@@coxgaspoweredtetherHave fun!

[@Airsally]

Great stuff. That is after my time. We had the prop driven red race car. We put it on a straight string and let it rip...it was pretty fast. Fun times ,thanks for sharing.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Cool have one in collection. Too fragile to run. Great detail, metal pan....

[@popup1959]

That's cool! Don't remember those, but I remember the old purple dune buggy from back then. Starts good and goes good. 👍

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Oh yeah!

[@tonyhoward7840]

I love those Cox cars n planes,,, use to have the three wheeler back in the day,, cool to see that dragster out running,,,, like this video

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Thanks for watching

[@benstone5650]

I had one of those in the 70’s, they are awesome.

[@rickdavis3593]

I had a red one.

[@frankrizzo890]

@@rickdavis3593 Me too. We knew nothing about them, so that means mine likely came from Goodwill with no documentation. So, my dad would spin the wheel to get it started. I don't remember us having anything to connect to the glow plug.

[@dbaider9467]

Wonderful. Crazy engineering into that little engine. I always wondered how these were started. Now I know.

[@franmisantone3230]

wow a blast from the past

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Thanks for watching!

[@csj9619]

This is likely what inspired my high school shop class teacher for a project we did. It was a C02 cartridge powered dragster made out of wood. Worked great, as long as there was eyehooks on the bottom to keep it straight down the fishing string control line. I once put a model rocket engine in it, but it still wanted to go airborn, even with the control line. Fun stuff.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Nice! I want to mount estes rocket on shrike on circle tether would it take off ?

[@RalphLaak]

I had this in red/white and blue stars and stripes,the Vega panel wagon,drone car (prop),P-40 Warhawk,Red Barron (.029),Stuka and the dune buggy...

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Good ones. Thanks!😅

[@Mightymouserc]

That’s pretty cool,always wanted one back in the day then got into control line flying

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Hey thanks for watching. I do like the control line flying and have a couple of planes. Hope to fly them soon. Crashed the Cox PT 19 flight trainer on the first flight wing over when I was 12.. Then I put it on display, didn't want to break it. I did do some electric r c flying as adult with some larger scale planes and enjoyed it , but very stressful for me to make the landings. Lol I started getting into the cars, drag and tether more heavily as this is my passion. 70s NHRA Dragsters etc.

[@a2rc]

That is some cool history right there 💯 Thanks for the fun vid 🩷

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@hugejohnson5011]

Awesome! You make me cry with this, as I had so many Cox and Testors cars and airplanes, I don't know where to begin! Some of my family worked for Kay-Bee Toy and Hobby, for years. I ended up with so many Testors planes, that I used to launch them untethered! I learned to heat and straighten the rudder to get them to not turn. The good old days! I had many Cox cars, but I didn't mistreat those at all! One of my favorites was an "ADAM 12" police car, that self steered patterns, by means of a shaft driven turn table up front, that carried discs with bumps on them that came around and pushed on a spring loaded steering mechanism. It also had one of those adjustable mufflers that covered the ports on the cylinders. That thing was cool. Plus I had the Baja Bug, an old Corvette, A sand buggy, etc. Thanks for triggering memories today!

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Nice great stories! I free flew one plane with your rudder method...😁

[@gregorydahl]

Me too . Testors albatross , mustang , bd5 , cox helicopters , combat ustang , stuntplane , p40 , pt19 ( blue and yelow trainer one ) , stuka dive bomber , corsair , homemade b17 with 049 on its nose . Probsbly more . I think testors made a few electric plaes you charged by holding it onto a 6volt lantern battery

[@hugejohnson5011]

@@gregorydahl I don't recall any electric Testors, but the ones I had came packaged "bubble shell/clamshell style, and came with a small glass bottle of pink fuel, and a 'D' cell battery for the glow plug. They weren't a million bucks even back then, but, I had a line on returns at a toy store chain, and each and every one merely needed a new glow plug/cyl. head!

[@hugejohnson5011]

@@gregorydahl A million years ago, Cox made a Ski-Doo T"nT snowmoblile, a " Silver Bullet" and I've never seen one in person. I always wanted one of those!

[@daveh3405]

Brought back some old memories. Thanks.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Thanks for watching.

[@goatboy150]

I had an EZ Flyer when I was a kid. I can smell this video 🥰

[@walk4718]

Most fuels use synthetic oil, so gone is the intoxicating smell of castor. I put a little castor in my mix just for the smell 😄

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Nice idea with castor lol. Thanks for watching. Amazing little engines!

[@stephanlamersdorf4565]

You should run 10% castor for cooling.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

@@stephanlamersdorf4565 thanks thus fuel blend has 9 percent castor, I could add more

[@edrodrigues3333]

I had the dune buggy. I remember the day after Christmas at Toys R Us all the dads trying to return various Cox models they couldn’t start. They actually had a starting station to help the Dads out.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Great love the stories

[@ryanmeeks7489]

Dragster is really rare and your playing with it. very coool

[@gregorydahl]

It had long stripe stickers at first

[@MAHGlie]

Lots of fun with Testors and Cox gas models. Corsair, P40, Mustang, Dune Buggy, Bonneville. Crashed them all!

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Yep thanks for the stories and for watching...

[@RadioReprised]

I had the Dragster, the Grumpy Jenkins Pinto Funny car and my favorite...the Jeep! When the Pinto broke I stole all the cool parts and glued them on my Soap Box Derby car in Cub Scouts!

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Very cool!

[@Axeman428]

Grumpy had a pinto? Don’t remember him EVER using a ford. That’s blasphemy even tho Chevys suck he still drove ONLY Chevys.

[@orlandonostagiafever1964]

Love it spent the 80s flying cox and Testors airplanes and cars

[@shawntailor5485]

My first plane was the p51 mustang .049 engine . I had a shit ton of those old string planes . Still got a testers in the package from 1979 .

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Nice

[@mauriceholder1386]

I had one in the 70s. It would break the string and disintegrate hitting the curb or parked car. I finally couldn't patch it up again. We did have a lot of fun with cox cars.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Yep been there...put the pillow down...lol thanks for watching and commenting!

[@mauriceholder1386]

@@coxgaspoweredtether I enjoyed watching it. Brought back some great memories from being kids.

[@MarkG-h2y]

I had the same Cox Dragster and my brother had the Cox Sea Doo Racing Boat. A friend of mine had the Chopper. I remember the boat had a little pull cord (string) to start the engine,

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Yup I had the boat. Pull cord 😆

[@nickhoffman5524]

I had the Cox Pinto Funny Car when I was a kid

[@tonywood3660]

Use to have an 020 for FF and 049 for baby rat race in Australia. Real fun times with these in the 70s. Never realised these types existed.👍

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Nice, thanks for watching.It's amazing the worldwide appeal of these glow engines.

[@kentsigmon268]

I had one these. Looked just like this, it had a plastic blown hemi that snap over the 049 engine. I remember one time the guide string broke and it took off on its on. It was running wild all over the drive way. Good times.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Great story.I have the fake engine.I just don't put it on for running. Check out my Other video Pinto VS Vega. The same thing happened with the string breaking that happened to you. You will see the car Spin out and go nuts LO. L.

[@rogerdavenport9618]

Had one of those in a Indy car Ford Lotus, got it for Christmas, tried to crank it the whole day, finally fired up around seven pm that evening, my mom and dad had a fit at the smell.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Nice story. At least you got it started. Must have been very gratifying. I work for hours on these things and then. Once she starts ripping, you're smiling LO. L.

[@FarmerFpv]

I remember having a Cox Lazy Bee rc airplane. At the time I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Sart the Cox .049 toss the plane and try to climb as high as you can before the fuel ran out. It was a slow climb. lol. I still have the Lazy Bee but with modern rc electronics. It has a brushless motor now.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Nice.I like the lazy b. I had 2 larger modern a rtf electric model airplanes, but very nerve-racking to fly them and land them without damaging them. I was decent pilot , not a pro...practice...lol

[@two2pedal289]

I also had one of these and don't know what happened to it as a lot of my "toys" disappeared when I wasn't paying attention, most likely donated to Goodwill, thanks mom! Wish I had here resolve to part with stuff as my life is over run with stuff I might need some day. Had the Cox dune buggy with recoil start but the control line combat planes were the most fun.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Oh no! Great stories... Yes, My cox boat got thrown out and I was so upset. "You never played with it" but yes, I did now There are five hundred dollars on ebay....

[@zacharyschnepp4860]

Man I remember those back in the day. They are so cool. We never use the line though we just let them run down the street those are the days.

[@michaeldantoni4292]

Wow. I had forgotten all about those cars. I had one that ran in a circle strung to a nail in the center of the garage.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Check out my other videos.I have those too, I think you will like them the circle tether....

[@NedHughes-fj5qw]

The second the engine started, I had a memory of the smell of the exhaust. A friend of mine had one of these and I think we were able to get it started and run it only one time. I had better luck the Cox Chaparral model. I lived beside a large concrete parking lot so I had a lot of luck running it around a circle.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Thanks for watching great stories. Must have been nice to live next to that smooth surface LO. L.

[@BC-rc]

My brother and I had one pointed at us years ago, we turned and the dragster hit the fence and shredded into the LA River. I still have an 049 cox gtp car, ran about 6 times, it was a blast when I ran it.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Nice!!!

[@karlschwab6437]

My boys had two of the Cox .049 purple dune buggies; they might even be in my basement somewhere.

[@wadeadams4263]

Absolutely loved my Cox dune buggy and funny car we got a plane but that didn't work out to well. Estes rockets were a blast

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Yup love the stories.....

[@dontask8979]

I had the dune buggy.👍

[@flymachine]

I’ve been obsessed with the hobby (aircraft) for nearly 40 years obviously spending thousands of hours with hundreds of Cox powered models, Heli’s, control line, free flight and RC, but in all this time I never once even heard of these, now I wish I had …looks like a ton of fun, I assume these are ‘free flight’ just made to run free in a straight line? Are the chutes timed and are there straight drag strip type tracks where they could be raced? Lovely sound that, it makes me feel like a snivelling kid dreaming of that plane I saw hanging in the hobby store, now I have so many and it’s a lot easier to buy something I like, a little bit of that magic is gone, just a little I still live for the unboxing of new models. Odd that there’s no rear wing (the aviation nut in me noticed that)

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Thanks for watching. yes, they run down a string 2 eyelets and a lever slot. You could set the tether length whatever you want. Y at end...not too long as to build up too much sway or Slack.. . There is a small plastic tripping bead tied at 75% of the run, which pops the parachute out and shunts the throttle. You could hear the throttle. Go to half after the tripping bead. and the parachute comes out. All mechanical As the shunt collar over cylinder port has to be set to precisely to shunt the engipe. no rear wing, They came a little later. These are the Slingshot dragsters of the early 60s.

[@pauljanssen7594]

My little Cox dragster was so fast that it would sit there and smoke the tires and then if you blinked it would already be down at the other end of the string which is quite long, I used parts from an airplane engine and had so much compression that you can barely start it up. I used two pillows at the end to stop it. By the way my sounded a lot more healthier than that one.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Thanks for sharing. She was runnin a bit rich. Check my other video uploads for more fast cox!

[@timokuusela5794]

There is a pearl in the running line that shuts the engine off and releases the parachute, and after it, the line goes to Y that stops the dragster. I used to have one back then. It sure is fast.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Yes you are correct ! I do have the tripping bead on the line at 70 feet, sometimes I keep the chute loose because I want it to pop quickly on a short run , but it does throttle shunt the engine down... getting everything to work is the issue LOL

[@ellgwapo.1754]

That's! Cox trackster Run Like on Rocket.

[@OKFrax-ys2op]

I miss the ultimate in men’s Cologne, Cox original fuel. ⛽️

[@01VIPER27]

I had one in 1975. I had tons of fun with mine.

[@EJ-74]

I have a control line cox p17 Very cool seeing this dragster running

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Nice thanks for watching!

[@MS7497]

Excellent video Sir.... I would love to get mine working again... Do you have any idea where to get the front tires and rims...... Mine had a little accident.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Yeah, the fronts are very hard to get.Sometimes you find the rear back half.But haven't seen many front setups on eBay.Keep looking

[@MS7497]

thank you... i will. Dont you just love the old toys we had!... So much different than whats out there today..@@coxgaspoweredtether

[@dougsrepair1060]

What a cool video find. I once had one of these.

[@mikesrcgarage]

The toys that made America great! ✌🏼😎👍🏼

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

You got that right!

[@TheGryxter]

Don't know about anyone else, but for me the parachute NEVER opened as planned. Sure it popped out, but not once did it ever billow out or even remotely slow the car down. String broke at the end of a run one day and it careened into a light pole.🤕 That was the end of my dragster. Even before I ever ran it she just looked so Bad-ass sitting idle on my bureau. 😎

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Thanks for watching and sharing your story. Yes I hear ya with chute...That was my goal here. If you look at some of my other videos , I have good clips of the chute deploying and car shutting down e.g vega and pinto.....

[@mikefleek9259]

Burned up alot of glo plugs in the early 70's life was good.

[@dannyclark9820]

Awesome! I had the vaga wish I still did

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Hey look for one used on eBay.Clean it up look at it run it never too late l o l

[@truenaturestormers2525]

Cool cool, I had one when I was a kid, super cool.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Thanks for watching! !

[@elfritts9895]

We were to poor for Cox but my brother and I both saved enough Sprite bottle caps for us each to get a testors Indy car that we would put on a string all the way to almost the corner 😅 man being a kid in The 60s was almost as awesome as being a teenager in the 70s😅

[@calescapee9642]

I've been playing with these things for 50+ years. I have a ton of motors, planes,boats etc.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Nice! Love the boats, had the Cox sea bee. Ran it in lake w broomstick tether in 3 ft😅 water 😆

[@jimklein4066]

I still have the Shrike. If you never saw one, it is a Cox rear engine car with a pusher propeller

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

@@jimklein4066 thanks yes check my other uploads for Shrike footage!

[@djguy314]

My brother had a Cox pinto funny car, never got to see it run

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Nice, I have the Pinto, and if you want to see it run look at my other videos, Lol. lot of people displayed them or couldn't get them started...thanks for watching

[@ronaldcarr3481]

What about 56 years since I ran one of those and brings back some good memories

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

I hear ya, time flies! Thanks for watching!

[@jimklein4066]

I still have the Shrike. If you're not familiar, it is a Cox car with a 0.49 engine and a pusher propeller. It could run free if you had a big enough space, or on a 10' teather.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Nice! Yes thanks for watching!

[@CarsandCats]

I would love to have one of these! I broke in a Miss Budweiser hydroplane in my bathtub. There was water on the ceiling from the prop and so much smoke in my house I almost threw up!

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

That's a good story thanks for watching

[@jimwuytack4738]

Nice to see, still have mine!

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Enjoy it

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Do you run it or show?

[@jimwuytack4738]

@@coxgaspoweredtether I keep mine static display.They are a small fortune today!

[@crazedgoldminner7384]

Fan-driven Tonka Jeeps went across the playground all over the place in Hayward back in late 60s 70s

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Nice! They must have went good, little weight on Tonkas. I put estes rocket engine in baja bug , took 8mm video, wish I had it.... Thanks for watching!

[@3wrapframe]

Kinda bummed. Tossed a cox engine the other day… just been hanging around on a plane and I needed the room. Can’t keep everything. Cool vid.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Aw that stinks....thanks for watching

[@stimpacat]

I had the Jeep,The yellow Van, Dune Buggy and the Dragster. Heat the glow plug with lighter.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Nice! Thanks for the tip! Van was cool, never had one.

[@gregorydahl]

Cold start it with rich fuel mix , then warm it up a few seconds and close the needle valve slowly to peak it out at max rpm . Go past max rpm it starts to die back up the needle vavle and peak it out . Then it is ready to warm the tires and let it go down the line where it wil pop the chute on a trip bead on the line .

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Nice method!! Close needle slowly takes second to react....

[@kd5ozy]

had that and the baja bug!!! who the hell painted it?

[@michaelcrosby6071]

Exactly

[@jonathanwindhorst526]

I had one of these. The Chute would never deploy right. The engine cut off worked but not the Chute.

[@stevenbrowne116]

Had the Dune Buggy and the Baja Bug,oh yeah!

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

Great video...👍

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Thank you 👍

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

@@coxgaspoweredtether>>> You're Welcome. FWIW: I used to fly control-line model airplanes back in the 1970s, and I think I still have one Cox ,049 engine in my garage somewhere.

[@PALM311]

Back in 1975 I had the orange VW bug. First time I started it up I let it go and it took off down the driveway and smashed into my mom’s actual VW bug and melted. It literally melted before I could get to it. Did enough damage to it where the body was shot and I never did anything with it after that.lol

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Wow that was bad. Cousin had the baja bug I put estes rocket engine out the back. Put axle in neutral and m80 fuse, lit and run whooosh......lol

[@sheilabare5677]

I had one back in the 70s

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Nice!

[@Danburdick-lm5xt]

ya gotta love it😎

[@jackthebagger7589]

Remember those well , we used to have the same setup on the street , but put a couple .38 cal 148 grain wadcutters in the cars ( Revell models ) with the solid fuel rocket motors , would get on down the road

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Bro I want to try the rocket motor in shrike! Yea....

[@ThomasDoubting5]

How delightful

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Thanks

[@thewaltbrownellchannel9318]

You should put a TD 049 piston & cylinder and a high compression glow plug on it 😃

[@anthonypirozzi837]

I had one when I was a kid,never ran it but it sure was cool. I have NO idea what happened to it...MA🤔

[@illtryanything5264]

I had one of these until I decided to see how it would do off the string. It was no match for the concrete curb. Back in my day, they made them stronger than that.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Yep. Truth. Thanks for watching

[@illtryanything5264]

@@coxgaspoweredtether How could you not watch?! I will be finding about four of these for drag racing with friends night!! People often miss out on such magic in favor of vide games and stuff. (not that that's not a fun thing to do though)

[@RalphLaak]

Anyone remember the Testers Sprite Indycar you could get by saving bottle caps...😉

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Yes I do great times. Thanks for watching!

[@jaydee5156]

I had one. Mine was never that easy to start. In fact, my dad rigged up something for his electric drill to make the process easier. Way too much work for such little gratification. I had a smooth surface to run on, so once those tires hit pavement it was gone. A friend wanted it more than I did, so he took my dragster and I got his dune buggy to go with the dune buggy I already had. Not quite the same scale, but I could squeeze a Captain Action or GI Joe in the seat for a ride around the yard.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Nice great stories. I guess what you're saying is the juice aint worth the squeeze...LOL Believe it or not to get these things started quickly, it really comes down to a good glowhead. Good battery, good fuel and make sure the reed is clean. I have that thing hooked up to the drill, but it's still doesn't work as good as snap.Starting. Once, everything is in order it's what you see here. It's like keeping an aircraft maintained. I'm glad you appreciate what goes into these things and thanks for watching..😁

[@jaydee5156]

@@coxgaspoweredtether I had several Cox .049 products, beginning with a PT Trainer. All were purchased new. I always kept a supply of new glow plugs and fresh fuel. A quart of Cox fuel never lasted me very long. Dad was a recreational pilot and had been a tether line flyer for years. His planes were always built from scratch. In spite of all that experience, the PT Trainer ate dirt. The engine went into a Dakota free-flight that he built for me. As I mentioned, I had the two Dune Buggies, but also a Baja Bug. The .049 variant used in those, had a recoil starter like a lawnmower or chainsaw. All of them ran great and were meticulously maintained. The dragster just never wanted to run right. I'm sure there was a bug somewhere.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

@@jaydee5156 Amazing stuff, thanks. Maybe a clog ir something w fuel line, the dragster remote fuel tank design was marginal at best...

[@kh40yr]

You could use a Estes model rocket chute, and it would fold down smaller than the Cox chute, and weigh less, and blossom bigger. Make sure to run the model into a big house pillow at the end. Several stacked together should stop it. In slot car drag racing, they use a pillow or several pillows in the shutdown area of the track, most of the time.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Ya thanks got the rocket chutes now and the pillow is the soft one . Have the Y at end of track. How about a model rocket powered Cox car or shrike?? 😆

[@kh40yr]

I have one of the RC Shrikes that cox produced. It needs a big open area to have fun. I was taking it to the local, extremely quiet, airport and running it on the flat smooth taxiways. You need 330ft of string for your dragster. At 100ft it's just getting started. How about a Rocket powered steel Tonka dump truck from back in the day??. I sent mine into a high speed end-over-end pass when I duct taped 2 Estes D motors to the bed and touched them off. When I touched the button on the launcher It didn't roll 2 feet forward, it just started flipping end-over style across the lot,,lol. Huge hissing smoke cloud and bashing metal sound,, lol. Estes made some rocket racer dragsters. You can still find them. @@coxgaspoweredtether

[@DonEdler]

I have the yellow Vega wagon funny car and a testors black Cuda funny car.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Great thanks for watching!

[@GeorgeEdmonds-v7e]

I have not heard that sound since I was a kid.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Yeah makes a nice racket! 😆

[@Axeman428]

I had a 57 Chevy .049 drag car when I was a kid. It got stolen or I would still have it.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Bro, that sucks I would buy the same car again. Start it up and get it going and enjoy yourself! Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@crazedgoldminner7384]

Remember that playing on the string and it always went over the top and crashed while we took that motor reverse the problem put a little piece of wood in the Tonka Jeep

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Nice!

[@unionrdr]

I still have the Pinto funny car!

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Great , start it up and get it going. 😆

[@unionrdr]

@@coxgaspoweredtether I gotta put it back together first. Haven't run it in years.

[@FrancisDrake-q3j]

That's one loud cox.

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Hey thanks for watching. A neighbor said you must be cutting a lot of firewood. I said I don't even have a fireplace l o l

[@yourfactstory]

Cool !!

[@ficosk8]

Interesting :)

[@coxgaspoweredtether]

Glad you think so!

[@ficosk8]

@@coxgaspoweredtether I had heard about Cox motors and your video came just by coincidence :) 👍🏼 Vintage technic :)