Lo and Behold!!! my best buy ever of a TeeDee010...in Hungary!!!

I would not have bet too much money yesterday on finding anything when entered "COX modellmotor" (= COX model engine) in Hungarian language in Google just to check if there is anything related on sale in my very neighborhood, and....LO and BEHOLD, a post on the Modellezők (Modelers) group of FB popped up, with a humble ad by someone in Budapest selling his original, never used COX TeeDee010 for the equivalent of 39 (thirty nine !!!!) USD. You should know that COX is a very rare brand in Hungary with only a handful of old f@rts like myself ever to have seen, let alone, run one...

I fixed a meeting and met the  guy today, who told me the engine was brought, 63 years ago, from LA to Budapest by his uncle (the uncle may have returned to Hungary after emigrating into the US following the 1956 uprising in Hungary against the Soviet occupation, when a state amnesty pledged unpunished return for dissidents in the early 1960-s), and the seller guy, the nephew of the dissident  (in his mid-70-s today)  got it from the uncle as a present, that he has never used, and luckily decided to part with it, today:




Much to my surprise the engine came to Hungary  right from the old COX Poinsettia unit in LA, the Quonset huts, around 63 years ago, as the attached Instruction sheet and its  Litho date 02/61 in its bottom corner testify, ( a 2018 photo below with myself proudly holding another TeeDee010 right in front of the re-purposed military Quonset huts, that once housed the  former COX factory before they moved into the more modern buildings in 1305 and 1505, East Warner Ave. in Santa Ana) DISASSEMBLED...





I knew COX sold disassembled PeeWee-s in "Engine Kits" to  encourage young modelers back in the day to familiarize with their engines , but have never heard the TeeDee010 was also part of the Engine Kit program?...the only critical part to assemble is the prop drive plate that really needs attention for proper alignment when pressing on the shaft end...

The cylinder and glow head are currently soaked in nail polish remover acetone, in an effort to remove the head sitting tightly on the cylinder, because before I assemble the engine I want to check its cylinder internals and clean it thoroughly.


My goodness, this find was the best surprise and buy in this decade of my life...