Early Vintage Gas Powered Ohlsson & Rice Tether Car # 76 Super Nice Original

Description

Ohllson & Rice die cast tether cars were first manufactured in 1946. The early model cars had solid rear brake drums. open air front grill, 10 air vent slots in the seat, windshield, manual fuel pump, external hand brake lever, 4 nerf bars or radius rods,  and plated front axle.  The cars were fitted with a .23 or .29 Ohlsson and Rice engine. The easiest way to tell their plane engines from the car engines was the exhaust port.  The cars have a straight cut exhaust and the planes had an angled cut port.  However they are interchangeable except to be estetically correct. Basic colors included white, black, red , blue and yellow. The .29 engine were available in either spark ignition models or with a glow plug.  In the early days Ohlsson and Rice had trouble with their engines and discovered a lot of the problems were due to inferior fuel sources. To rectify this they started to manufacture their own Nitro Glow fuel.  This seemed to cure their engine problems. The later models in the fifties went to a closed front grill , 1 air vent slot in seat,  hollow brake drums,  no windshield and a smaller .049 engine. The last of the midget racers were made in 1959.