Toasted 🙃 be sure to run em rich and with airflow as if the car was moving as intended. That whole thing has a ton of parts that are made only for this car.
My Father died in 2018, he left me his O forty five special. I remember me and him playing with it in the early 70s runing in a circle! His Father Hank was a hot rodder and my dad mentionded to me that his Dad may have bored it out to .060. Cannot get it to run so far, but have heard it fire!!
Let me assure everyone here that: 1) The engine is a Cox/Mel Anderson .060 cu. in. engine from a Cox "Special" tether car. I had the car and took it out myself. 2) The engine did not seize after running, it still turned freely with good compression. The built-in fuel tank is small and that's as long as it will run on a full tank. In retrospect it would have been a good idea to run it with a prop, but it was a cool day and it's a tough little engine. As noted earlier, I sold the car on eBay to someone in Japan.
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Hi Sir, I am rebuilding one O-sixty like yours. I don´t have two parts: start pulley and, left axle with hole venturi, I need any photos of parts to make. Thank you very much Jose My email: jmcalata@terra.com
Hi Jose, Sorry, I hadn't checked my old RU-vid channel for a while. If you're still interested, I have some photos of the disassembled engine. Let me know if you still need them. Cheers, Dave
Jose Maria Gonzal...Let me know if you still need those parts for your COX .060 SPECIAL, I have a nearly complete engine that has those parts.. I could trade or ? PS I could not get to your email address jmcalata@terra.com
Unfortunately this engine was leaned out too much and overheated... When adjusting the needle valve very very little movements of 1 degree at a time must be made and not a 1/4 of a turn as shown...Slightly rich is much better on a Cox or any 2 stroke model engine...
@@twincitiesdave The head and cylinder were getting way too hot...Only cooling available is the air passing through the cooling fins when he car is moving...Anyway the engine was was way too lean...The right setting should be when the sound goes in and out of octives...
(Continued from below...) The engine you see running here, as well as the one from my O-Forty Five Special, still have the original glow plugs with the word "Spitfire" engraved on them! I have hundreds of photos of my two "Specials", which I think I'll put together in a slide show and post here, so stay tuned!
Sorry alilbigman, the engine came directly out of a L.M. Cox "O-Sixty Special" model car and went right back in after running. I sold the car on eBay to someone in Japan for $400. For more information, see "The Engine Collector's Journal" issue of Jan 2010. The Special was the first Cox gas engine-powered product in the late 1940's. In fact, to save time and money, LeRoy Cox bought the piston/head/cylinder combination from Mel Anderson, used in their Baby Spitfire engines. (Continued...)
Beautifully done Dave! The 045 O-Forty-Five (0.8cm3) Manufactured in 1949. This engine was the first engine which was designed and at least partially manufactured by Cox. Only a few but vital parts like piston and cylinder were purchased from Mel Anderson. This engine was used in the "Cox Special" tether car, which was a big success in the market. The design is very clever and resulted in a relatively cheap power unit named "Power Pak" which could be easily added to race cars.
@amenic1894 Glad you liked it. Sounds like you know your early Cox history. Did you see my other video of my "O-Forty-Five" engine running? BTW, I sold this engine, with its car in very good condition, on eBay to someone in Japan. I still have the "O-Forty-Five Special" car/engine, which I've treasured since it was given to me in the sixties.
Amazing to see this O-Sixty Special Running. This engine is a later version of the 1949 O-Forty-Five power Pak (Special Racer Car Engine - Manufactured in 1949) Well done! great video.
@MrRazmushenriksson Sounds like a fuel supply issue. Probably needs to be disassembled and cleaned. Try an online search for instructions; there are many resources. I also had several Cox .049 and .020 powered cars and planes as a kid. Good luck!
@ideeman1994 It's from the car that was given to me by a neighbor for shoveling his driveway over forty years ago. It was already much older than the Cox cars and planes I had as a kid in the '60's and '70's, and I knew it was something truly "special". I just recently dug it out of my basement, cleaned it up and got it running, but just as a demo. It's very collectable, and I don't want to risk damage by running the car with it.
