Your favorite "looking" engine?

[GERALD WIMMER]

Gotta be the Fox Hawk 60. Goes really well with a 13x6 tons of power and good looks.
The Old (rough) Hawk is on a equally rough 25 year old public display model set up for 'mock' combat. It still flew a nice F2b pattern when not pulling a streamer in 60 size combat!
Gerald

[FLOYD CARTER]

How can anyone not admire the RO JETT 61 BSE?  The engine is hogged out of a single block of aluminum, and reminds us of what a CNC machine can do.  Other than the mis-matched cylinder head, this engine is too pretty to put into a plane.

[Randy Cuberly]

How can anyone not admire the RO JETT 61 BSE?  The engine is hogged out of a single block of aluminum, and reminds us of what a CNC machine can do.  Other than the mis-matched cylinder head, this engine is too pretty to put into a plane.

I have to agree with Floyd on this engine...I have six of them of various sizes.  I would also mention that they function incredibly well!

Randy Cuberly

[Garf]

The Ira Hassad Custom is a bitchen looking engine. Maybe Garf has a photo of one?

I only have pics of 2 models, and not good ones at that.

[Garf]

I like this one. Cox 35.

[Garf]

This is good too. Cox 40.

[Garf]

More favorites for looks.

Campus .29

[Garf]

More yet.

[Garf]

And then theres this one. OK Cub .29.

[Larry Fernandez]

Here is my favorite looking engine.
Sorry, I just had to go there 

Larry Buttafucco Stunt Team

[Randy Cuberly]

Here is my favorite looking engine.
Sorry, I just had to go there 

Larry Buttafucco Stunt Team

Wow Larry!  That's so gorgeous you're forgiven for putting it here.  Is it actually going to be a runner or just for looking at?

Randy Cuberly

[Larry Fernandez]

Wow Larry!  That's so gorgeous you're forgiven for putting it here.  Is it actually going to be a runner or just for looking at?

Randy Cuberly

Its going in my el Camino.

Larry, Buttafucco Stunt Team

[Steve Helmick]

Of the (model airplane) engines I've owned, the early (pre-Johnson) Holland Hornet, the ST G.15, and the Rossi .15 are my favorites in the looks department.  Steve

[Gerald Arana]

Here is my favorite looking engine.
Sorry, I just had to go there 

Larry Buttafucco Stunt Team

Wow Larry! That must be a reallllly biiiig Ringmaster you're building! 

Jerry

[Serge_Krauss]

I'm with Denny, Jim, and Rusty. My two: Dooling .29 and Olympic .15. Whenever we'd drive over to Chicago from Elkhart, I would find time to walk up to the mezzanine (Edit: at the Fair Store) and view that new-in-box Dooling .29. I felt like Ralphie in "A Christmas Story." Of course, the Dooling .29 had gone up to $21+ by that time.

[Garf]

Tono 3.5cc

[Gordan Delaney]

Here is my favorite looking engine.
Sorry, I just had to go there 

Larry Buttafucco Stunt Team

     

Larry, I`m with you. You posted the best looking of all time.

Gordy

[Bob Heywood]

"Vote early...Vote often..."

K&B .65 s/n AAC002. Never run...

Harley-Davidson XR-750... (Mine's not this clean...)

[Jim Kraft]

Well then, there is this one in black and chrome. 99 EVO powered Softail Cusom.

[Bob Heywood]

Well then, there is this one in black and chrome. 99 EVO powered Softail Cusom.

Nice...!

[Robert Zambelli]

The first one - maybe not very pretty but definitely unique!

The second one - my all-time personal favorite! Photo taken just after I did a major rebuild.

Bob Z.

[Jim Kraft]

Hey Bob Heywood, How many XR750's are there left still running. Seems to me they are pretty scarce. Really cool you have one. I have always drooled over them. They always just looked like an extreme amount of fun. I did have an 84 Iron Head Sporty XLH for 23 years, it now belongs to one of my grandsons.

[Bob Heywood]

Hey Bob Heywood, How many XR750's are there left still running. Seems to me they are pretty scarce. Really cool you have one. I have always drooled over them. They always just looked like an extreme amount of fun. I did have an 84 Iron Head Sporty XLH for 23 years, it now belongs to one of my grandsons.

The XR750 is all but gone from the Grand National scene. Maybe one or two teams still try to use them. Way too costly to run and they can't compete. The Kaw works too well and the special race engine Indian is really fast. I don't know a number, but there are quite a few in collections and in the back of race shops. Plus, who knows how many engines are in boxes, sort of like our model engines.

[Bill Mohrbacher]

I do like long nose engines.  Besides the original Fox 59, the first HP 61 and the BVM 91 Ducted Fan, actually made by Henry Nelson, are a couple more of my favorites

[Randy Cuberly]

"Vote early...Vote often..."

K&B .65 s/n AAC002. Never run...

Harley-Davidson XR-750... (Mine's not this clean...)

1979 was the last time I rode an XR..Sweet engine response although my Yamaha 750 Hansen Framed Bikes handled a little better on most tracks.  Would probably have liked the XR More if I had more time on it and could have played with the tires more to suit me.  Truly a sweet power delivery all the way up the range. 

Randy Cuberly

[Bob Heywood]

1979 was the last time I rode an XR..Sweet engine response although my Yamaha 750 Hansen Framed Bikes handled a little better on most tracks.  Would probably have liked the XR More if I had more time on it and could have played with the tires more to suit me.  Truly a sweet power delivery all the way up the range.  

Randy Cuberly

Ex-Gary Scott. Single side shock C&J frame.

Oh yez...

[Randy Cuberly]

Ex-Gary Scott. Single side shock C&J frame.

Oh yez...

Something to cherish!  Wish I had been able to keep something...Sponsors mostly demanded everything back!... do have a couple of old MXers that are "special".

Randy Cuberly

[Ted Fancher]

Not counting Lauri's fabulous work, my other favorites are:

* K&B 15 Series 61 rear intake: Perfect proportions, ultra clean design

*Dooling 29.  That bubbled bypass has a purposeful take no prisoners look to it

* Edco Sky Devil:  Look-up "bad ass", chances are there is a picture of Ira Hassad's masterpiece...

The Dooling .29.  Nothing else is even close on the eye candy meter!  I've owned two over too many years and to this day don't know why I let both go somewhere else.  They deserved to be on the wall with the family photos.

Ted

[Mike Keville]

Agreed!  (Dooling .29).  I have one, thanks to De Hill.  It's a work of art.

[Double Deuce]

Some of you folks may recognize them. Then, again.

[Peter Nevai]

Nothing beats some color.... I suppose I can send out the case and other parts and have them anodized, just to be different. There is debate whether the black anodized finish dissipates heat better.

[Juan Valentin]

          Here are another pair of my favorites. MVVS 5.6.

[Garf]

Those look like they should be a speed engine, but at 5.6 cc

[Juan Valentin]

Those look like they should be a speed engine, but at 5.6 cc

         I think  that this engines were made after MVVS made the first run of 5.6cc engines like the one used by Josef Grabis in his Supermaster. I don`t think they are speed engines but I could be wrong. If you look at the supermaster plans I think you can see the outline of the engine with rear intake. I have not tried to run them they are as I received them from a friend who is a stunt flier.

[Randy Cuberly]

         I think  that this engines were made after MVVS made the first run of 5.6cc engines like the one used by Josef Grabis in his Supermaster. I don`t think they are speed engines but I could be wrong. If you look at the supermaster plans I think you can see the outline of the engine with rear intake. I have not tried to run them they are as I received them from a friend who is a stunt flier.

They are definitely Stunt engines.  I saw several of them in Europe in the 60's and they all ran really well.  Perfect stunt run for the day!  Tried to buy one several times but they never seemed to be available when I had the money, which wasn't often as a poor American soldier with a family in Malta.

Randy Cuberly

[Randy Cuberly]

Some of you folks may recognize them. Then, again.

I think one of those, a .29, broke the AMA B class record at over a hundred and 55 mph at the Dallas Nationals in 1960...Wish I could remember the names of the two guys, Shelton and Harris maybe?  The crankcases were based on McCoy's.  When it ran everyone on the Apron took note and gathered around.  It was obvious from the sound that something special was happening!

Randy Cuberly

[Bob Heywood]

Some of you folks may recognize them. Then, again.

Wowser...!

[bob whitney]

before the K&B's and S/T 15's couldn't wait for the latest Aeromdellers to see pictures of the 15,Moki's and MVVS.s

then there was the first OS combat,rat race 35, just looked bad sitting there

[Double Deuce]

I think one of those, a .29, broke the AMA B class record at over a hundred and 55 mph at the Dallas Nationals in 1960...Wish I could remember the names of the two guys, Shelton and Harris maybe?  The crankcases were based on McCoy's.  When it ran everyone on the Apron took note and gathered around.  It was obvious from the sound that something special was happening!

Randy Cuberly

Let us see how to answer this. First order is that you do be wrong in your assessment in several directions. Had Burley and Boyd made these engines, I am pretty sure H & R would not be cast on them. I do have something in common with Harris and Shelton though, aside from being very good friends, we all three from Louisiana.

These are the only set of Rattlers ever made by Husted and Roy. 15, 29, and 60. The 29, in the middle, held the B record 5 times. we held the B and Proto record 9 times, 5 with this engine and 4 with a couple others.

The 15 and 60 did not fair so well. We held both records but with more or less stock engines, Torp 15R and Rossi 60.

You are correct in one count. when the 29 ran, folks did stop and look.

As an aside, Boyd and Burley did turn 155, with a Dooling 29. Not sure what year.

No offense taken, just glad someone looked.

Check the Husted obit atop the Speed page.

Luke Roy

[Randy Cuberly]

Let us see how to answer this. First order is that you do be wrong in your assessment in several directions. Had Burley and Boyd made these engines, I am pretty sure H & R would not be cast on them. I do have something in common with Harris and Shelton though, aside from being very good friends, we all three from Louisiana.

These are the only set of Rattlers ever made by Husted and Roy. 15, 29, and 60. The 29, in the middle, held the B record 5 times. we held the B and Proto record 9 times, 5 with this engine and 4 with a couple others.

The 15 and 60 did not fair so well. We held both records but with more or less stock engines, Torp 15R and Rossi 60.

You are correct in one count. when the 29 ran, folks did stop and look.

As an aside, Boyd and Burley did turn 155, with a Dooling 29. Not sure what year.

No offense taken, just glad someone looked.

Check the Husted obit atop the Speed page.

Luke Roy

Well, I stand corrected on the origin of those engines.  They are beautiful, of course.
It was a very long time ago and I was a 19 year old kid who flew combat and rat race.  I was there, at Dallas. with a contingent from my club the KC Flying Eagles. When Shelton and Harris put up their record flight and won the Nats speed I and a lot of others, of course, went to talk with them.  I'm not altogether sure they officially set a record with that flight because I remember something about not being able to make a back up flight.  I did definitely see the engine they used and while I believe you when you say it wasn't one of those in the picture it definitely was not a Dooling 29.  I knew the Dooling's very well, I used one in a Pan Rat!  I remember being told by one of the guys (don't remember which one) that it was a hand made engine based on a McCoy 29R crankcase.  It had a spinner arrangement very much like the one on those engines in the picture.
 This was in 1959 or 1960...whichever one of those years NAS Dallas hosted the Nat's.  That winning flight really stood out because there was nothing else that was close to the speed or sound at that contest!

Randy Cuberly

[john e. holliday]

1960 was a Dallas NATS(Grand Prairie NAS) and was back there again in 1964 as that was my first NATS.  Could never thank George and Dorethy Watkins making that trip available for me.  They stayed off base in a little motel while I got to spend the week on base sleeping in the barracks, eating Navy chow and meeting some of my heroes in the work hanger.   Had never seen that many model planes before in one place.

[Paul Walker]

Now here's a real great looking motor!

[Chris Cox]

Now here's a real great looking motor!

Where's the "Like" button?

[Brett Buck]

Where's the "Like" button?

  Put your finger down your throat and poke around for a while, I am sure you will find it.

    Brett

[Gerald Arana]

  Put your finger down your throat and poke around for a while, I am sure you will find it.

    Brett

 

Good one Brett!

I've come to the conclusion that everybody likes something different, just like their taste in women! Different shapes, colors and sizes fits all! 

Cheers everybody, Jerry

[FLOYD CARTER]

The Arden engines have a "machined" look, in contrast to others which look as if they just come out of the foundry mold.  The smooth, uncluttered look, with many thin steel cylinder fins remind us of careful machining.  The Ardens never became popular for C/L stunt;  Their small displacements of 0.099 and 0.199 were more suited for free flight use.  If Ray Arden had produced a 0.49=size, I think the C/L people would have used them.

[Garf]

Now here's a real great looking motor!

Talk about vommitt inducing.

[Larry Fernandez]

  Put your finger down your throat and poke around for a while, I am sure you will find it.

    Brett

There you have it ladies and gentlemen.
Its comments such as this, that has elevated Mr. Buck into the top slot as the "Biggest Smartass in Stunt".

Well done Brett, but remember, its one thing getting there but its not so easy staying there.

Larry, Buttafucco Stunt Team

[Chris Cox]

  Put your finger down your throat and poke around for a while, I am sure you will find it.

    Brett

Thanks Brett, I feel much better now!

[Fred Underwood]

Sounds like "hurl" practice.  Perhaps advice and preparation for the Fox 15 hurl.