I'm wishing I still had the Waltons store brand Celestial 160 my dad bought in the late 70s. It went missing in 2001 sadly, during a move.
After looking up the code book Cyberjack linked to, I found out this mid arch alloy deck mower dated from 1976 and I have vague memories of dad unboxing it, probably in 1977 sometime when I would have been a four year old attending preschool. The last time I used it would have been about 1996 after having mowed our lawn and others with it since about 1987 when I was first allowed to use it, and then it was stored thereafter. It was a reliable machine but would never start first pull. It always required at least a second pull. It had a carburettor overhaul at A&E mowers in Epping NSW (later Vince Duffy Mowers before closing down in there 1990s) in the early 1980s after it wouldn't start. This included receiving the white primer cap to replace the grey primerless cap. That would probably explain why it wouldn't start lol.


Ahh, if only victa had kept producing the thumblatch catcher series, they would be in better shape today!