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Over the last week I took a trip to Texas and Louisianna. I was able to check out a couple of hobby shops. When I go on travel I like to visit the hobby shops in the area to see if they have any good stuff to pick. I found this cool Cox/Kyosho atc three wheeler on display in a hobby shop in Houston Texas.



I have been half heartedly searching for one ever since I saw one in a hobby shop in Denver about 10 years ago. I asked the owner if he would sell it. I didn't want to show my poker face but I really wanted this sucker. He said he would need to call the previous owner to see if it was okay to sell. So I left my number and he said he would call me the next day. Sure enough he did want to sell it for the price I offered so I went back to the shop the next day to swoop it up. Since it was Sunday, the post office was closed so I couldn't ship it home. I ended up flying with it as my carry-on luggage. Luckily TSA didn't give me any grief and I breezed right through security with it. I would like to do a light restore on it but still retain the character of the original build

Cool find! I remember those as full sized bikes. The neighbor kids had them when I was in high school. My main memory was how those suckers would lean going around corners.

Ahhh the good ol days before atvs and safety nazis. Very cool little machine you have there, cool story, thanks for sharing!

Great pick up.

Love the tires with the knobies all around the carcus. So 80's style.

(got to love surprise find's jim, pretty sure darryn (retro) has written an article on this trike

I had one of those almost exactly the same as a child, but this one my parents bought while on a trip to Japan. The seat had a vertical section in the rear, like a tall back-rest for the rider, and you could move the pack of batteries (I think 6 C-cells or something) up into the back-rest or down into the bike chassis; when in the back-rest, the bike would do wheelies. I don't think I ever saw one in North America quite like it, but the front fender looked exactly like yours, so I imagine it was from a similar manufacturer. Mine also had rudimentary springs in the front forks as suspension though. I wish I still had it!