Cox scorpion ARF build!

It’s been a little while since I was last online, but I’m back now and I’ll be posting around once a week (maybe more, idk yet- my life is way busy rn...) a few months ago I came across a really well priced tee dee 09 RC and happened to get a cox scorpion along with it!

Here’s the 1996 cox catalog for reference




That catalog has the few cox ARFs and the rare tee dee RCs
It has the killer bee and the venom is listed as well!
There’s a couple other rare-ish items as well
Anyways, really cool catalog that actually got me wanting the scorpion a few years back. I eventually semi forgot about it.
A few hours after scoring the engine ($150!!) I realized I needed a plane to use my new engine I finally obtained. I started looking at all sorts of sites and I couldn’t find any sport ARFs in an 09 size. I eventually found myself on eBay looking up ARFs in vain and whaddya know, the second listing is a cox scorpion.
The airplane I fell in love with about 5 years ago just cruising through that old cox catalog, sitting bored in the garage, daydreaming about having one of these unobtainable planes along with one of those super cool looking cox RC engines that always sell for way too much on eBay. I had the engine that I wanted, now it needed a plane, and here was my chance to get a plane I had wanted for quite a while, new in box, with an engine to match.
And it was exactly what I was looking for- an ARF sport plane at a good price and also happened to be red... that happened to be designed specifically for the tee dee 09 RC.

Until someone made an offer and the guy took it


I of course was extremely disappointed, because I couldn’t find any others elsewhere and I now had an engine with nothing to use it for. So I do some research in my misery and somehow come across a site I never knew about called auctionzip that had a cox scorpion new in box.
Turns out it’s a site for auction houses to put listings on and for users to participate in live auctions. I did some research, and couldn’t figure it out, so I just called the auction house and asked the guy about the site and the airplane. I decided to just do a phone bid and the airplane was new in box, with some water damage on the box (it was only on the box, the plane turned out to be just fine). So on October 31st (2 weeks or so after I found out about it), I bid... and won the airplane

For $55

Yeah... someplace in the middle of nowhere in New Hampshire- with apparently no one who’s interested (but probably no one or very very few who even knew of the auction happening, and or its contents) in the coolest cox stuff ever made- (in my opinion) they had a jerobee commando in the lot, sold for only $110 iirc... a tee dee rc 05 and an rc 09 that someone scored a great deal on as well. There were some other nice cox and other cool classic NIB or almost NIB model things in the lot too.
Would have been awesome to have been there in person.
Anyways we got the shipping figured out (cost more than the airplane itself...) and sent it down here to AZ.
Fast forward around 2 months and now we’re here. I was able to convince my parents to have this be my Christmas gift since he whole thing was so cheap and I opened them 8 days ago. Everything is in pretty darn good condition and I’m very excited to start. I already ordered all the parts, though I haven’t gotten any extra props yet. The parts are coming sometime next week and my sig order is coming later this month. I already received the spinner and radio switch, along with the receiver, batteries, and prop that I already had.
That will be all for this post... that was longer than expected

I’ll do some work on it tomorrow and take pictures, not sure when I’ll show them though.
In the meantime, here’s some pictures of it in the box (out of the bags and disorganized because I was too excited to remember how it went ) and some other various pictures.
Enjoy








An interesting cheat sheet on the manual... maybe this was “pre assembled” by a hobby shop? Maybe by cox... who knows



These guys had quite the sense of humor, it seems



And, last two images of the night, my 09 next to my 074, my two favorite “obtainable” cox engines, both with spinners as of 24 hours ago
And a money shot with the new spinner