Hi Tyler and BB,
I do my best to keep the interest in the 2 strokes going, but as we all know it is the end of an era much the same as the Shannons series on car manufacturing. My house is on a big block typical of the post war housing, 1/4 acre block, hardwood frame and conventional roof built on site,concrete stumps, brick veneer. Few current tradies would even know how to build this type of house now because unless they have a nice smooth slab to walk around on to erect their prefab walls and roof trusses they would be lost. This prefab building style has also come at the same time councils have allowed building being built fence to fence to enable bigger houses being built on very small blocks of land so lawns and gardens just don't exist in the new estates. The need for the tough old Victa is still there as there is still millions of homes built pre the mid nineties that still have reasonable sized yards, but the older generations that grew up mowing these tough old lawns are slowly disappearing and so is the Victa 2 stroke reputation. The Victa tough old reputation was also tarnished by the bad handle design on the pressed metal bases along with the ability of them to rust out quickly. Plenty of people have told me they couldn't kill the motor on their old Victa, but the body fell apart around it as we all know
