Stop it Jack, you're too kind.
She's been saved to my favourite items on Gumtree, the sooner I finish my other projects, the sooner I may be able to fit in another. Being electric, there won't be too much to it I wouldn't have thought.
I passed up on an absolutely mint INGS Rota-Rola today. Looks like it was used a dozen times and then parked up for decades. Even had the metal catcher. Only asking $90. I just simply have no room, and this would have had to sit in the elements. With winter well and truly on the way, I just couldn't do it. I hope it went to a good home. I just love oddball machines.
Speaking of oddballs, I agree. It's the weird machines that I would have thought that collectors (uh, those with highly specialised and varied lawn mowing requirements) would be going for. Victa's reputation is well deserved, but the 18 was a mass produced machine. Kinda like SB45s. Both go for huge prices. Maybe it's simply parts availability or easy recognition of the model that has helped in this regard, but I don't really get it. Hey, I'd have a Rotomo in my...fleet...but to pay a couple of grand for one? Holy moly.
Mind, people may think I'm nuts trying to get a modified, ex-commercial use Pope 320 back into service, so I guess it's a case of each to their own.
