That's an exceedingly rare find, a red Mustang with matching red catcher. It seems most buyers preferred froggy! Hence a store full of them here.
Green base PT Mustang was late 83 or 1984 and GTS decals was 1987/88. I think I may have just figured out why the PT Mustang got lower end round throttle assembly instead of the rectangular one the FC ones with G4/LM carby always had. They were positioned at the top of domestic push mowers. With the 1983 introduction of the PT range, the Vortex was then positioned at the top with it's fuller engine cover bolted to the base, and the Mustang now was not, getting a top tier engine bolted cover instead.
Later on, during the GTS era Victa heads decided to cascade the square housing down to lower models, including some higher up steel deck models.
Ahh, if only victa had kept producing the thumblatch catcher series, they would be in better shape today!
