10-03-2016, 01:02 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Originally Posted by Initiator001
Just a minor correction.
Cox re-issued several of their original RTF model rocket models between 1989-1991.
Estes did not acquire Cox until the mid-1990s at which point the rockets were no longer part of the active product line.
Only 1000 of the Cox Saturn Vs were produced (Still with the wrong interstage paint pattern).
I posted some history about Cox over on TRF many years ago. I believe you can search and still find my thread.
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It's been a long time, but seem to I recall talking with Estes at the time (maybe it was Cox, but I think it was Estes) and "lobbying" them to produce the Little Joe II and Nike Zeus (the Little Joe II booster section's mold was lost in a move, breaking when it fell off a truck, and the Nike Zeus molds weren't usable or available for a reason that I can't recall). Similar to how Centuri owned Estes on paper (even though both were run as supposed competitors) before we started seeing "Centuri Corp." on Estes products after Centuri went away, did Estes perhaps already own Cox on paper at that time, before Cox's tooling (some or all of it) was transferred to Estes' location?
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