[Greg Reid]

Originally Posted by MikeNoun

I remember the "Vr-room" motors! I only knew one kid that had one, and we were all jealous. We used the poor mans motorcycle sounds, we taped baseball cards to the forks of our bikes, and they slapped against the spokes.

Here's the Vr-room!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC0dK42wOOA

My friend had the Cox Vega Funny Car. Remember how those Cox .049's started? On the airplanes, you hooked a little spring on one of the prop blades, turned a few turns, then let it kick back, and hopefully it would start. On the Cox cars, you flipped the rear tire, and they seemed much harder to start.

I sometimes see guys flying their R/C planes at a Forest Preserve by us, with a dedicated runway and area for R/C planes. I sometimes stop to watch, always looking for scale models. Not too interested in the stunt planes. Anyway, when one of those starts up, I smell that wonderful Cox engine fuel, and it really takes me back.

I found a box of old Cox stuff that I have, but everything is in pieces, nothing complete. An old 3-wheeled motorcycle in metallic purple, parts of a VW Dune buggy, and a blue front engined dragster.

I never would have remembered that vroom motor if you hadn't posted that commercial. I do remember those. That clip brought on a flashback. I remember the fact that it had a key. That thing was beyond any dream of me ever getting one. In fact, my first tricycle was a hand me down bike...lol

I've still got a quart of cox glo fuel, an engine on a wooden pylon that I used to fly gliders with as an adult and the battery starter wires.
As for being hard to start, they were ALL hard to start. You never forget the smell.