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1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-May-2021 18:30:23 EDT lnxw48a1
   I remember getting a Cox dune buggy. After struggling with it for days, I asked one of the neighbor kids for help. Together, we got it to run twice, for about 30 seconds each. After that, it never ran again.
   
   One of my brothers got the Cox airplane. The neighbor got it to fly once, but it never flew again after that.
   
   I don't even know if the company is still around, but that left a negative feeling ... even though there were a couple of families on my street who had them working.
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-May-2021 18:36:52 EDT lnxw48a1

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      I don't remember what kind of fuel they used. Probably not gasoline, but there was some kind of fuel.
      1. GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-May-2021 19:42:42 EDT GeniusMusing

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         @lnxw48a1
         Gone the way of the Dodo it seems...
         
         Cox Models Wikipedia
         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox_Models
         
         What they ran for fuel was a mixture of Methanol, nitromethane, castor oil and Klotz oil.
         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox_model_engine#Fuel