McCord Spitfire .65 RC A Quick Look
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- An unbelievable score!!! Vintage 1958 Anderson Spitfire 65!
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Ok, Dave; I have to tell you a quick story. You were saying that you didn't know what kind of fuel to use in that engine.
When I was about 8 years old (1954), my cousin found a large old model airplane in a tree. He eventually gave me the engine out of it. It was a K&B Torpedo 32 green head. I was very interested in model airplanes. I mounted it on a board. I fueled it up and flipped that S.O.B. for about a year and could not get to start. My finger was bloody and I was worn out. A childhood friend of mine who was also into model airplanes told me about the fuel he was using on his models. I had been using gasoline & oil with a glow engine! I used some of his fuel, and that little green head came to life! That's what got me into the hobby. Eventually, my finger healed. That HP was your enemy and mine was the K&B 32. Knowledge is power!
My name is David McCord. I'm the son of Bob McCord and I "helped" dad build some of those engines, can't remember what I did but I remember I got 10 cents an hour! I see my sister Barbara posted below. She was a tiny baby then. I was about 9 years old when Dad bought the project from Lou Mayheu and started building and selling them. There were enough parts to build a few engines and then he needed to have some parts made to keep going, like heads and crankshafts as I remember. Dad introduced the Spitfire glow and RC versions. By that time, glow was "in" and spark ignition was "out." He only occasionally got orders for spark ignition engines which he built to order from parts that came with the project. The old spark ignition version had a plastic tank on the rear of the engine. Your engine looks new, I believe Dad ran every engine before shipping it. Dad used 80/20 methanol/castor oil, NEVER any nitro methane. He mixed his own. In those days we mostly only used nitro for small engines and high performance engines. The original Spitfire had a cast head. Dad had those blue anodized heads machined when he ran out of cast heads because he got tired of waiting for the foundry to produce more cast heads for him. (I remember him cursing under his breath about that foundry!) But then he was actually glad for that because he liked the more modern look of the blue anodized machined head with the blue collar where the spark ignition points had originally been. I met Mel Anderson, one day Dad and I went to his house and visited him somewhere in SoCal, I don't remember where. He was pretty old as I remember, a tall man. Dad also bought the Anderson Cyclone project with enough parts to build some engines which he sold but didn't continued after he ran out of parts. Late in the 60's, Dad sold the Spitfire project to Quentin Clark, in Redwood City CA who I don't believe actually produced any engines. By that time more modern hi performance engines were dominating the market.
David, thank you very much for commenting and sharing this awesome information! So much appreciated to hear this inside information on this engine and your father. There will be another video released next week showing this engine again too.
Quite the purchase! Good for you. Thanks for sharing.
Bob McCord was my dad! I had no idea that those engines were still around!
A very nice grab, Very nice Pictures at the end of the video too. Run it just once at least, Then you can pack it away in your big (not to run engine stash) Just to see it running & hear it would be amazing👍
After more than half century later, this is amazing condition, please let it run, will be awesome to see.
Very beautiful 🤩
very nice. wanna see it running
Very nice score, a rather scarce Classic era engine. Not many made and fewer remain today. Be a treat to see it run, I suspect it will run well, but loud.
You are a model engine magnet.
Wow it is a beautiful engine I am going to make a video tonight on my vx18 engine it will be a short look at it
Run it, dave! 10% nitro 22% castor would run quite nicely in it.
Lovely engine I have got a very old frog 500 glow engine and I run that on low to no nitro castor fuel! So I think you should be ok as long as you have some castor in the fuel!
Would the exhaust extension be on backwards? Seems it would catch a lot of air.
Yes, it definitely looks like it was assembled wrong there.
Yes, the stack is reversed from the normal orientation, a former owner probably turned it around, it will fit either way.
The exhaust stack is on backwards. This engine is from my era. Glow fuel then had a higher nitro content. That engine probably ran on 10% nitro methanol / castor mix.
If I'm not mistaken, in the late 40's model airplane fuel was a nitro benzene / castor oil mix. I think sometime in the early 50's they changed it to a nitro methane mix. Eventually they got away from castor oil and came up with better oils for less gumming. If anyone knows for sure, please reply. I still love the smell of castor oil and alcohol or castor oil and nitro they used to use in the old racing motorcycles and go karts.
Nitro benzene gave that neat shoe polish smell to the fuel- also highly toxic. As far as oils go, you are not going to find one much better than castor for protecting engines under high heat/stress conditions.
Put some fuel through it to wake up the neighbors! Keep it clean though, this will really shine in a display case. Back in the day when this was sold almost everyone made their own fuel and >50% nitro was not unheard of. 20-25% castor only is a must here for lubrication, synthetics will make this engine unhappy.
Love itttt!!!!! Fire her up
I don't think a run video will lower it's value, I think with the condition and age showing it running might increase the value. It would be hard to prove NIB with this engine anyway, right?
Amazing condition and never saw fuel for sure, i think 5 to 10 nitro and maybe munimum 20 to 25 castor oil should work, but save the glow plug....
Engines are meant to run.
Just run it like you always do.................
I think 12.5 % nitro was the most you could get back then which is what K&B 500 was. I'm not sure but I thought Duke Fox was the inventor of the glow plug back in the late 40's or early 50's.
No, there were higher nitro content fuels available. K&B 500 was 15% nitro, K&B 1000 was 30% as was Cox red can, Fox Missile Mist was 25%, while Fox Blast was a healthy 50% nitro. There were others as well.
Ray Arden invented the glow plug just after WW-2, I think the first large public demonstration was at the 1946 Nationals and the idea quickly took the modeling world by storm.
@@johnkelinske1449 Good to know :-)
@@johnhubbard3399 It helps to have a fairly comprehensive old magazine collection!
Hey David my name is John I'm out of Dallas Texas I have quite a few old glow engines but you might be interested in or maybe you can show on your Channel I'll look up your email to shoot you some pictures
That would be great!
I think some of the ones I have are older than the one you just showed in two and I have one that's real close to that too I'll get you some pictures here shortly
Maybe they bought the tooling to make them.
Bob McCord bought all the left over original parts that Mel Anderson had when he stopped production to concentrate on his .049s. If that included any of the original tooling or not is pretty much an open question today. It is recorded when he ran out of some original bits, he made new ones, like the blue anodized head.
Very very very very sexi!!!!!
Hey Blaz! I am very glad this was an engine that was NOT ever run at the factory. Otherwise it would have been in very poor shape inside. As it is, it looks like it was made just yesterday.
Looks like it is out of a time capsule. Unless you think that you can sell it for a lot of money, go ahead and run it.
I would never think of selling this engine.
I wouldn't run if it was mine, I have lottsa engines I can run. But this is not mine...LOL...