Can you figure out what engine he is holding in his hand?

Thanks Bob. My wishful thinking was telling me it should be a Cox engine...all those epic years of COX history...or at least what I visualize about them from my geo and time distance

Balogh, my friend, I thought the same when I saw the photo. Looking
closer,(if my old eyes are still usable), I see what looks like a fuel tank
peeking from behind the propellor, above the prop screw. If one of our
friends comes up with the answer, I'll sleep tonight.
Good brain teaser. Thanks.
Bob

Maybe a Spitzy?

DING!! There she is!!
I love you Kim, I can sleep!
Thank you, and good night.
Bob The Greatful

A what? Never heerd of it!

Sorry brother, I'm abed.
Night, Bob

It's a cute little thing!  The kid has it tucked in his glove upside-down.

From Tim Dannels' Engine Book:





Good nite Bob !!!

P.S.   The "Redhead" note is from a listing above the Spitzy.

I think Kim nailed it, but it could be a Senior?

They REALLY knew how to name things back in those days:
"Nitromic Glow Fuel" !!!!!

"Cleans as it Runs!"

That HAD to be good stuff!!!!!!!

Thanks Kim! Even if I wanted it to be a COX..I love finding old historic documents about COX engines. In 1974 I sent a hand scribbled letter to COX from Hungary written in my then even poorer English, asking for some catalogues and advice how I could have bought an engine from the factory direct.

They responded to a 16 years old boy living 10 thousand++++ miles away behind the Iron Curtain, i.e. absolutely outside their market, giving it the time and cost of mailing a beautiful set of 1974 catalogues and some consoling words like:"..maybe one day you can buy the engines even in your country...".. I still have the catalogues in their weathered air mail envelop, but the nicely composed answer written with typewriter on a colorful  COX letterhead stationery was lost!! How I would love to ask Mudhen or another former COX employee and CEF member if he knew the person who wrote me that letter...



Strange that 40+years later I eventually made my way to the front  door of former COX HQ building in Santa Ana where their letter sent to me passed through to the post office in Orange County in 1974..

Balogh the Nostalgy-man

balogh wrote:Thanks Kim!I still have the catalogues in their weathered air mail envelop, but the nicely composed answer written with typewriter on a colorful  COX letterhead stationery was lost!! How I would love to ask Mudhen or another former COX employee and CEF member if he knew the person who wrote me that letter...

Strange that 40+years later I eventually made my way to the front  door of former COX HQ building in Santa Ana where their letter sent to me passed through to the post office in Orange County in 1974..

Balogh the Nostalgy-man

Oh man...how cool! That's "Touching Bases" on a Global Scale!!!

Yes Kim, I had other reasons to travel in California, but once in LA I thought why not visit in Santa Ana the Quonset huts at Poinstettia Ave Ave. and the later buildings at East Warner?

Oh yeah! I TOTALLY understand that.

I started calling it "Touching Bases" decades ago---wanting to stand in a place that was important to me for some reason or other...often having to throw my imagination at a grass lot where a building had stood.

Glad you got a chance to do that!!!

Glad to hear that Kim, I thought I am alone stalking/hunting places and events of past, having some importance to me

balogh wrote:Glad to hear that Kim, I thought I am alone stalking/hunting places and events of past, having some importance to me

DUDE!  I'm totally there!  Even to the point of visiting drug-soaked trailer parks and housing projects where I lived as a kid...or peeking in the dirty shop windows of an old historical college before it sinks into the ground...

Fortunately, time has a allowed me to become a gruff old coot (when necessary), and I no longer have to explain myself or make excuses!  One good thing about getting old, I guess...

balogh wrote:Thanks Kim! Even if I wanted it to be a COX..I love finding old historic documents about COX engines. In 1974 I sent a hand scribbled letter to COX from Hungary written in my then even poorer English, asking for some catalogues and advice how I could have bought an engine from the factory direct.

They responded to a 16 years old boy living 10 thousand++++ miles away behind the Iron Curtain, i.e. absolutely outside their market, giving it the time and cost of mailing a beautiful set of 1974 catalogues and some consoling words like:"..maybe one day you can buy the engines even in your country...".. I still have the catalogues in their weathered air mail envelop, but the nicely composed answer written with typewriter on a colorful  COX letterhead stationery was lost!! How I would love to ask Mudhen or another former COX employee and CEF member if he knew the person who wrote me that letter...



Strange that 40+years later I eventually made my way to the front  door of former COX HQ building in Santa Ana where their letter sent to me passed through to the post office in Orange County in 1974..

Balogh the Nostalgy-man

A++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Both on you and Cox. Greenie applied.

I save that nostalgia stuff too. Binders full - cars, planes, trains.

Thank you Bob!

They will pot UR assess in jail for saying that now A days    I Love It !!