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Never known them to be anything other than Dark green Jonesy. Havnt seen a variant other than As you said that the auto skirts were avocado. Model 2 2a and 3 are definately dark green, as for 4 and 5 I cannot confirm 100% but all originals ive seen were dark green. I have seen restored rings in hammered finish. Restorers preference I guess and they are usually in alpine green hammer spray,not even avocado. Anyways ive only had a few with traces of colour and they were dark green:)

Thanks Blue, at least this confirms what my initial thoughts were.

Was just browsing old Ebay and came across this gem, earlier I posted an engine No of 283737 over S that was on a model 5 series 1, I picked up, here is a model 5 series 1 with an S on the lower crankcase also, it has a larger S than the one of mine and is around 10K later engine No, No real point here but just thought it interesting.






how many other lower crankcase letters out there???

It is an odd one Jonesy...Not sure its relevance,what is interesting is this is the small numbering and the S is uniform size to the numbers. You say yours is smaller,and this is the smallest stamping Victa used so it is quite odd. There are a few theories as discussed previously,but seriously ive not come across any other letters only blank lowers....But youve got a keen eye and id like to know its meaning if any someday,as it definately falls in the mower series run and not a tiger or other variant.

Here they are side by side.



small s

Thats a horrible mating for a special jonesy. Another theory may be a replacement lower in warranty? Probably wouldnt be marked as normal. A replacement part after warranty or from spares would be unmarked as its not assigned to a model or series run....

So got some more goodies to go towards the Model 4, 112832 over 2

Hmmmmm....Those parts look very familiar....lmao. Well thats pretty much your auto nearly complete bar a few bits.....Very impressive Jonesy!

Back to your S Ref, I forgot when i was doing my marine, the engine has your small S also...hmmmm. maybee does require some more examination.:)

NA just lost the 5 stamp that day/days/week/? see what else turns up



And yep got a few bits to get yet, but have more than I had before, no doubt you noticed the front flap is a cast alloy replica and is the only part of the front set up I have, so the hunt continues on that one, also if some more info comes along with details of the required parts and photos I will know what I am missing from the rear flap as well, the mower the bits came off I sprayed some brake cleaner into the barrel and gave it a pull and away it went, so I hooked it up to my service trolly carby and it started & run straight away, the timing is a bit out but it run, will put up a YouTube link when it finishes uploading. So pretty stoked to have the bits I have for the minute.

Just thought I would put up some pics of the parts donor mower here.










Vidoe link to the old girl running HERE!

Lols....yeah i left that one,but im heaps happy you got it and at a reasonable price too. Correct engine on the donor to will be of value for trade or sale for other bits your after too or of course for any of your incompletes....ive lost track of how many you have now lols. Well done mate! Just need get you back into restore mode so we can see some of these gems come to life! I knew the parts were familiar at first sight ha ha.....now who did buy that fan Mk1?hmmmmm? Lols

Dont know???? did you see the other Mk1 that was taken off Ebay early? there is also a M1 on there too. And yes you are right about the resto's (here I go again) resto! got to stick to one at a time he tells himself, (get side tracked too easily lol)
So the plan??? 1. concrete slab in front of shed, 2. fit tipper to ute, 3. finish stacking wood in shed, 4. Mowers. ha ha see how that goes?