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Blue Miss America
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Mudhen- Gold Member
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Re: Blue Miss America
Nice find. I’ll have to keep and eye out for this. I’m still missing a blue backplate in my collection.
I do have 3 of those .020 tanks with the never went into production reed holder. They all came from the .020 cars with the heavy crankshaft so it seems these were in production for a little while.
I do have 3 of those .020 tanks with the never went into production reed holder. They all came from the .020 cars with the heavy crankshaft so it seems these were in production for a little while.
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Re: Blue Miss America
Wow. Nice
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Re: Blue Miss America
y have bleu yelow red black engine mount not same size plane lost destroyed stil have back plate lot of 3 buried somwere in cox and guilow plane used 1 bleu timbledrome engine mount to mount on foom plane converted rc . mebe same materiel for back plate reed valve?
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Re: Blue Miss America
That is a Beautiful Miss America !! I Have one of those blue plates somewhere LOL I think i had ask about it awhile back and was told it came from this plane , Good Deal Mudhen !!

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Mudhen- Gold Member
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Re: Blue Miss America
Mudhen wrote:I'm not sure if you're referring to the back plate, or engine mount, (firewall). Back plates were molded from Celcon or Delrin, and came in a variety of colors. Cox also experimented with different blends. The firewall or engine mounts were molded from polystyrene or propylene and usually matched the colors of the model.davidll1984 wrote:...mebe same materiel for back plate reed valve?If I were responding to CNN, I'd reply...rsv1cox wrote:Let me play CNN here. But Mud, it has a bent prop.
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Re: Blue Miss America
Mud,
Thanks for the pic. I never took mine apart to see that it was just turned down. Makes sense it was added as a thrust plate on the car. I do have 3 of them.
Jason
Thanks for the pic. I never took mine apart to see that it was just turned down. Makes sense it was added as a thrust plate on the car. I do have 3 of them.
Jason
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Mudhen- Gold Member
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Re: Blue Miss America
That's the one Cox airplane I really wanted but never got. I suppose because it's sort of a mix of Cox, air racing and Evel Knievel. Very cool, Mud. Thanks for sharing your good fortune! And for sharing your extensive knowledge. It really is most appreciated.
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Re: Blue Miss America
Mudhen wrote:
I’m not sure when the Miss America was discontinued, but the blue backplate came somewhere between 11/72, and 1/75.
Pretty cool for $125.00
Beautiful restoration, congrats. I found in the COX models database of Martin Happerle

that Miss America was produced sporadically in 1971-72, 1972-75, and 1990-91, but the last production run had wire landing gears and engine placed upright. . So yours is dated between 1972....75 i.e. from the 2nd production run.
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Re: Blue Miss America
I agree Mud - Way cool. Beautiful model and a nice restoration.
Looks like it might have rested on one blade of the propeller but the rest of the airplane looks straight. I imagine you replaced it with an identical prop. I have sworn off plastic airplanes, but had I noticed it I might have given you some competition. Love the P-51 models.
Bob
Looks like it might have rested on one blade of the propeller but the rest of the airplane looks straight. I imagine you replaced it with an identical prop. I have sworn off plastic airplanes, but had I noticed it I might have given you some competition. Love the P-51 models.
Bob
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