It's sad to see them disappearing. I scored a lot of mowers and bits from their scrap bin over the years. I found a fully functioning green 1970s Mustang with G3 carburettor in the early 2000s as well as a white 80s Mustang at another. Also got a VC 160 behind a third store dumped in an alley which ran beautiful.
Have found some good stuff of late here outside Sydney but both the mower shops I would get them from have closed down.
Ahh, if only victa had kept producing the thumblatch catcher series, they would be in better shape today!