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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Clint Ormosen on November 06, 2015, 11:18:19 PM
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Here's a few screenshots from the movie "Radio Flyer". The kids in the film kept referring to these as Cox motors, but I'm quite sure they're not. Can anyone identify them?
K&B Sportster 45 maybe?
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From the webbing on the case looks more modern than old. just my 2 pence worth.
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The engine is a K&B Sportster, I can see a 6 on the prop for the pitch. I never saw the movie so without a reference to the size of the object I can't comment on its displacement.
Dennis
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Radio Flyer is a Tom Hanks movie. It's a neat but sad movie about two small brothers growing up in the early 60's, and one brother is the victim of child abuse. I won't say more than that to give too much away, but I believe it is a great movie, very well done on an important subject. If you grew up in the 60's you will like it, and there is a sort of aviation theme. I don't remember seeing it advertised, and then caught it on cable olate one night, then managed to find a copy of it on VHS. I can whole heartedly recommend it.
And I always thought they (there are two of them on the vehicle) were K&B Sportsters of some displacement.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
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Have no idea but the needle and carb looks OS, didn't K&B use Perry carbs or maybe that was later..
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Definitely a K&B Sportster.. I have a .65 model 91 (the bad one intended for target practice). But the carb is not K&B, or at least not the common one. Mine is all ribbed.
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Wonderful movie! Not a "feel good" movie, but one that calls attention to a real problem, and handles it tactfully - assuming you can use your imagination to fill in the blanks. Much of the dialogue is incredibly meaningful.
I played the beginning over and over again to capture this dialogue accurately -
“History is all in the mind of the teller. Truth is all in the telling.” - A father (played by Tom Hanks) to his 2 sons, who are arguing (over a model airplane) in the movie “Radio Flyer”
Definitely one of my top 10 because of its message. If you don't want to bust a child abuser in the chops after seeing this one - especially when you grasp what the real "ending" is - you have ice cold blood in your veins.
Dennis