OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums Repairs and Maintenance Questions on Engines Questions On Victa Two Stroke Engines Query

Here is a little more info.

I'm starting to beleive that there were two types of exports, the first, export only models, models which were not specifically based on australian models, or variated from the original design substantially.

Such as this export model from 2003, by memeory, this was in Brazil.


The second type, which would not have fallen into the export only catagory, and therefore not have been given it's own coding, is where an australian model has only been given slight modifications to be sold overseas, usually due to requirements for certain countries, such as the current requirement in england for muffler sheilds, larger stone gaurding on chutes, blade brakes and bump sheilds:



The above mower is still recognisable as a professional utility, it simply has some additions and modifications.

Here is one of the pages of the parts list for the 1973 VC-sports, this is the only part of the list where I could find reference to exort modifications on this model, and one of them, the HT lead with supressor, seems to fit the pictures above, where the boot seems much larger than we would normally see on this machine.



So my theory is that we are looking not at an export model Victa, but at an export version of the VC-sports, which has simply been re-branded for export, possibly to help promote the engine size in the name, where the mower would not have been as well known as it is here.