Roy Cox Thimbledrome CHROME Champion tether car

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Roy Cox Thimbledrome CHROME Champion tether car:
$425.00

Up for sale is a chrome plated Roy Cox Champion tether car. This car is complete & has no major scrapes ,scratches,or pealing of the chrome. It is all original with no modifications.Engine & rear end are all in good working order with great compression.This was the very first model built by Roy Cox although this model used a Cameron engine.

The L. M. Cox Manufacturing Co, Inc., was founded in 1945 by themachinistRoy CoxinPlacentia, California. Cox grew up in and around his father\'s bicycle shop, and he developed an interest in mechanical devices. Cox\'s first products were woodenpop guns, produced in his home garage. Cox chose wood for his basic material, since metal was scarce during WW II.

When metals became readily available in the United States in 1947, Cox turned his attention to new products, beginning with adiecastmetal car. This product was developed into a \"whip car\", atetheredvehicle which could be manually swung in a circle at high speed.Nitro- and gasoline-poweredtether carswith .60 cubic inch miniature engines capable of speeds of 100mph (160km/h) were quickly becoming popular. Cox\'s first contribution to that growing hobby was a cast aluminum midget racer powered by a .15 engine by Cameron Brothers.

Cox Manufacturing enjoyed a large postwar growth due in part to its production of miniature modelinternal combustion enginesandcontrol linemodel aircraft, finally moving to a new factory inSanta Ana, California, in 1963. The factory started at 80,000 square feet (7432 square meters). Three expansions in a few years\' time saw expansion to 225,000 square feet (20,903 square meters) and introduction of a line ofslot cars,model rockets,HO scalemodel trains, and a full-sized, one-horsepower gasoline-poweredchain saw.

Roy Coxretired in 1969.