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The "Wow!" post sent me off on a youtube journey that progressed from the land of the very small to the land of extreme RC where I came across this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p533DxCVhnc
A few minutes of that everyday should keep your reactions sharp.

And I ended up at the tether car track - which I'd never heard of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=555aeQlPprY
Talk about coming up on the pipe! Makes an angry bee sound quite tame. There's another run on youtube from 2007 of 204 MPH. Amazing that the drivetrain, wheels, etc stay together.
 
> And I ended up at the tether car track ....

Oh, I remember those from my youth - tether cars and tether boats. VERY popular sport until the early 60s when good RC equipment became available.

The tether boats often used high pressure flash boilers operating at about 150 to 200 psi. They used a tiny two-cylinder steam engine which had rotory valves instead of the more common slide valves. The boiler fuel was usually common lamp oil in a pressurized tank.

The tether cars used a 2 stroke engine with one rear wheel mounted directly on the crankshaft. They were all push started. The fuel was nitro, alcohol and caster oil. Very interesting exhaust smell.

Ah, the memories!
 
TOOOOOOooooooooo much free time!!
 
Speaking of tether-cars does anyone else remember those Jet-X cars of my early youth (early to mid 50's)? I still remember the smell of that little rocket engine!!
 
I had a teather plane. It looked like a Tomcat, but had a propeller on a little Cox gas motor (049 engine ?). You learned soon to make sure the strings were long enough, or you got dizzy real quick.
 
I never saw a Jet-X car but I remember putting those engines on the 5 cent balsa planes and watching the wings being ripped off occasionally!
Bill
 
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