Well, you can buy some Fox parts again...

Ken Cook wrote:           Typical Mecoa fashion, no parts for the common stuff. No word when you will see them, and don't call us.

Well what are the alternatives? Clearly Fox has been struggling to survive for years. Like most businesses that go under, they could have easily just shut the doors, scapped all their stock & tooling and not passed on the rights to anyone. While there may be good reason to criticize MECOA for its slack business practices, it least it's still in business. I know they advertize a lot of stuff that has been nil stock for years, but they have the capability and the right to produce the parts and I guess they're just waiting for demand to go high enough for it to be economically viable to do a run of certain items. They're a business, why do stuff that doesn't make money?
If we want the hobby to survive and we want the producers of the engines and parts that we love to survive, we ought to be out there promoting and recruiting. The hobby needs to be growing. Sad reality is, things go out of date, people move on to something else.