OK.... I give in.. I'm not going to paint it... I'm gonna hold on this..!!
I felt bad enough taking it to pieces.. now I will be putting all those parts back on it again. I will keep looking to see if I can find something else that will be more worthy of the "green paint" treatment..!!!!
My missus will probably leave me in the meanwhile though, I promised her that this one would be for parts. I have 6 mowers now (4 of them are Victas) and no room in the garage to work on them... now that the handles have been removed though I recon I might be able to hide this one under the bed..??
This hobby can quickly get out of hand, but sorry, that standard VC does look in well preserved shape. Is the left hand side of the chassis edge badly scraped to the point where there is missing metal? If not, that is well worth preserving IMO and it would make a nice pairing with the Auto Drive. What happened with the plan to paint up the black replacement cowl? You can always use that as a mule to try the paint on, without using too much up, of course.
