Category:Cox engined cars

1965: "Own a Cox Gas Powered Racer!" [image info]

Cox 1:20-scale "gas-powered" cars.

Cox got their proper start with petrol-engined model cars. Even though the market for these cars was probably quite limited, and eclipsed by the model aircraft market that Cox started to dominate, the cars were pretty much top-class, and there was no reason to abandon them.

During the mid-Sixties, most general Cox adverts seemed mostly to mention just two popular 1:20 scale petrol-engined models with highly contrasting distinctive shapes and colours (the contrast being useful in a racing context) – a bright red Corvette Sting Ray, and a yellow Ford GT. There was also a "novelty" car, the foot-long "Prop Rod", which was driven by a rear-mounted propellor, and which people tend to remember from their visits to the Flight Circle at Disneyland.

In use

The cars could be raced in three main ways: on a circular track with a tether, on a noncircular track with the help of a rail guide (often attached to the side of the car), and in "drag" racing on a fixed-length straight line (presumably with some sort of "catcher" barrier at the end).