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Old 02-06-2014, 07:03 PM
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I can remember buying Cox Pee Wees in the blister pack in the mid 70s for NZ $8.95-at the local (Eclipse Radio and Hobbies) model shop-but in an intermediate package to MJD's one shown above-the one I recall was a lavender blue card-which preceded MJDs multi-coloured one shown on the lower left above. I remember being impressed that they did an R/C version as well.... Just to make life difficult, they had no prop at all appropriate for the PeeWee-and my first run was on a Cox black 6x3 cut down to 4". The shop's stock of Babe Bees were still in the orange tear off packaging colours.
......the cheapest engine I ever bought new retail was the DC Wasp-at NZ $7.95 from the same shop, around '72 or '73.........

ChrisM
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....one of those PeeWees is still sitting on the front of an Ace 'Dick's Dream'..............