Surestarts are like a box of chocolate.....
02-04-2009, 05:00 AM
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RE: Surestarts are like a box of chocolate.....
Is that a brand new one or one fished up from the bottom of the ocean?
I've had a couple and both have been great runners.
I've had a couple and both have been great runners.
02-04-2009, 06:43 AM
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RE: Surestarts are like a box of chocolate.....
Wow... looks like they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel now! I haven't checked for a while, but are these even still available? Last I heard is that they weren't making anything new, but instead just assembling engines from old inventory - you'd think that they would have ran out of parts a long time ago.
02-04-2009, 07:28 AM
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RE: Surestarts are like a box of chocolate.....
At the peak of production Cox was making a million engines a year in the early 70's. They recently sold all their remaining inventory to a guy from Canada who invested somewhere between a quarter to a half million dollars in what was left. He is selling it all thru ebay as far as I can tell and seems an honorable man. And yes the company in Colorado was assembling from old stock and sometimes things out of the reject barrel. I heard that when they finished production on the ready to fly toys they had parts for 400,000 engines on hand.
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02-04-2009, 07:35 AM
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RE: Surestarts are like a box of chocolate.....
Figures that I heard (here on RCU) was that there was enough parts for 20 years production of surestarts. Not sure about the other engines.
02-04-2009, 08:00 AM
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ORIGINAL: icerinkdad
They recently sold all their remaining inventory to a guy from Canada who invested somewhere between a quarter to a half million dollars in what was left. He is selling it all thru ebay as far as I can tell and seems an honorable man.
They recently sold all their remaining inventory to a guy from Canada who invested somewhere between a quarter to a half million dollars in what was left. He is selling it all thru ebay as far as I can tell and seems an honorable man.
02-04-2009, 08:09 AM
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RE: Surestarts are like a box of chocolate.....
ORIGINAL: Lost Glider
Surestarts are like a box of chocolate, you never know what you're going to get.
Surestarts are like a box of chocolate, you never know what you're going to get.
Looks like you got "Crunchy Frog".. [:'(]
02-04-2009, 10:00 AM
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RE: Surestarts are like a box of chocolate.....
ORIGINAL: MJD
Looks like you got "Crunchy Frog".. [:'(]
ORIGINAL: Lost Glider
Surestarts are like a box of chocolate, you never know what you're going to get.
Surestarts are like a box of chocolate, you never know what you're going to get.
Looks like you got "Crunchy Frog".. [:'(]
LMAO...
"If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy now would it!?"
I've dealt with the people in Canada a few times...xenalook...they seem like pretty decent people to me too. (Good deals on shipping )
I asked him if he'd heard of RCU and he said no...so I gave him a link to this forum...
There's another guy in Il. selling Sure Starts in lots of 60 and 80 at a time.
