I saw a hard rubbish collection going on last Sunday night so stopped the car and got out for a look and it didn't take long before I found a complete steel deck SPFC Victa and a steel deck Victa catcher with plastic flap inside, in the same street. I wondered what became of the missing mower. After almost doing a lap of the block on foot, looking at other piles, I saw an object right on the street corner at the side of my eye and it actually gave me a fright as it was dark, and alas it was the missing mower as it had the missing flap. It was a PT with the nice top B_B has talked about. A lot of surface rust but no rust penetration on first examination. The SPFC is the same as Converse model but has the older type wheels, which suggests it's the slightly older 80/81 model.
Haven't had a chance to test them out our take pics yet as they're still in the ute. Photos to follow.