OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums Restoring, Customising and Modifying Paint and Decals VICTA - New Decals for Old Victa

Gooday Fellas,
You probably know this - but......
I have always bought my decals from Rustic Spares (I have no connection to them). In their latest catalogue they have Villager; 1/2 pint Castrol sticker; 1/3 pint Castrol sticker (both green and red); Victa Rotomo; Castrol XL silver with red stripe through centre and Torque-Master for mowers - and a large range of Howard machinery and 100s of stationary engine decals.
They have a web site too.
I try to keep away from the rip-off merchants as described above.

Sorry for not being on for a while - I wandered off the "straight and narrow" by getting tied up helping start a Men's Shed.

Stationary

Welcome back Stationary. I think you'd posted about the Men's Shed involvement, but we've missed you.

I second that Stationary, great to have you back mate!!
Good news about some well produced decals. No one wants to have decals on a newly restored machine that have spelling mistakes....that guy should remove them from sale....Just another case of buyer beware.

I have seen some of Rustics at the Yerong Creek field days....very good quality.

Haha wow poor bugga! He copped a beating from you mob lol!! I can't stop laughing!!

Anyways on another note, have been looking at some reproduction victa 18 decals for the fuel tank, the seller has two options though....

1. The castrol lettering is in black
2. The castrol lettering is in green

My question to all the whiz kids on here....
Is there a different era that the black lettering was used? Different models maybe? Perhaps there was only one colour used?

Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction!

Big thanks again to all in advance and especially to those for the previous posts on this thread that gave me a jolly good chuckle!!!

Yep, he copped some well-deserved flak there.

From the ODK 'Victa Model 4 Automatic Specifications' thread HERE, it looks like the green text version corresponded to the Concord factory address [1955-58].

Like this one:

The Victa factory moved to Milperra some time in 1958, and it looks like the text colour changed at that time.
THIS past thread has a reasonable pic of an original tank decal with the Milperra address.

Of the Victa 18's with cowl mounted tanks, Models 3, 4 and 5 may all have been made at both locations, as far as can be determined by the Victa Green Book. A lot of the 18's about have been 'bitserised' over the years.

Thanks Gadge! Much appreciated!!