OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums Restoring, Customising and Modifying Victa Walk-Behind Rotary Mowers Victa Cortina - 68-72 - G3 Carby

Giddy all,
Just cleaning up a Victor Cortina mark 1 for my daughter to use, cannot seem to find any pics
Of one on here, (prob don't know how to use the search function yet), I am looking for shots of the back of the mower where the catcher attaches, I don't have one and need to mod one to fit, any info would be great. Would like to add some pics of mine, just don't know how yet.
Cheers.
Kirky2

Giddy all, still can't find photos to post pics, the engine number of the block in front of carbs is 1 70 1 1384 1 I hope this means something, it's a mark 1, 70 series, cortina wind up start.
Cheers
Kirky2

Giddy all
One more, I'm prob doing this wrong but I think it worked
Cheers
Kirky2

Nice project but I can't quite work out why you want shots of the back of a mower where the catcher fits, when you have the mower right there. Perhaps you mean shots of a catcher and the part of it that fits to the mower?

that model has 2 metal hooks on the handlebars and the catcher hangs from them. like this corvette on ebay.

If you go to the search function and just put in Cortina, then older than 1 week, newer than 5 years in the drop boxes you will find articles on your mower including one from RodeoBob who has some of the catchers for Cortina and Corvette mowers apparently.
https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/u...;Words=Cortina&Search=true#Post55900

As Gizmo said there should be brackets on the bottom part of the handles for the catcher to hang off.Here is a pictures of the back of one of my Corvette's.Same mower just a different Cowl and a different name.


The second picture isn't my mower it was on eBay late last year,but you can see how the catcher fits.Need anymore pictures let me know and I'll pull my mower out and take some pictures.
This is it from a sales brochure.

Giddy all,
From the above photos, can we tell what year this one is, and is it around the right age for the body?. The 1's at either end and centre seem to be part of the moulding, but the no's are stamped in.
Cheers
Kirky2

Hello Kirky2, Gizmo, Aussietrev, Members & Guests,

I've recently posted some of the Victa catalogues:-
https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=152

My best guess is the 1969-70 or the 1970-71 lawnmower season.
Maybe one of the Victa experts will confirm this.

Hope this helps.
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JACK.

The engine is 1970-71 model year, and I would say it's original.

Impulse starter, G3 carby, no decompressor, and 'boxy' VC-style muffler are all correct for that model year.

The '68-'69 had a 'torpedo fishtail' style muffler and G2 carby, but I can't find a definite reference for the '69-'70.

Yes, I note that this model ran over two seasons:
that is, 1969-70; 1970-71.

The distinguishing feature here is the 'boxy' muffler.
This 'Thru-Baseplate' muffler was introduced late in the 1970-71 season (on this model);
meaning that this machine would date from sometime before September, 1971.

Hope this helps.
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JACK.

Giddy all,
Thanks for that, I first thought the 70 in the No. may have been the year, then I thought ,no it's a series 70, it's strange that when you look up the replacement parts manual, 55 - 69, there is no mention of the Cortina only the Cortina 2 that first appeared in 64-65 then 67-68 and 68-69, which finishes that manual, but still no mention of cortina, I would have thought cortina before cortina 2 or a base model with no extras, thanks for dating it for me, now on with the do up.
Cheers,
Kirky2.

Hi Kirky,

Yes, what you say would be somewhat true.
However, the Cortina 2 came before the Cortina to designate it as a '2' stroke, and
to keep the naming consistent with the Corvette 2 when the Corvette '4' 4-stroke
came on-line.

I might add, to correct myself, that your model (with the Series 70 MK 1 engine),
continued in the 1971-72 season (1972 catalogue); whereas the VC's received the
Mark 2 decompressor engines for that year.

It would only be in the 1972-73 season (1973) that the Cortina would get the Mk2
engine.

I think that's right.
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JACK.

'Cortina 2' only referred to its having the 2-stroke engine. Not a 'Mk 2' version.

Victa's convention in those days, was to add a 2 or 4 suffix to the model name to denote whether it was fitted with a 2 or 4 stroke engine.

Edit: Beaten by a minute!

Hi Kirky2 not sure what year you were going off but from my knowledge it is an original Cortina engine that's the 1 in front of the 70.The 70 is in fact the year of manufacture,so it's from 1970 with a 125cc engine with no decompressor.It should have had a G2 carby as the original,my guess is it won't have now.
There were 4 models of this model,(I know that sounds silly)They run from 1969 to 1972.
Models were.
69VE-1-2-3 1969-70
69VE 1970 1969-70
70VE 1970-72
71VE 1970-72 all run the same victacode V63.
There were very little differences between each model more to do with dates and different part numbers.I can't find anything different's in there physical appearance,and the fact that Victa changed the part numbers for the bases.It's probably just things like (and I have seen this before) extra ribs in the base to strengthen it.It's possible that's why there are 4 models.Yours really could be any one of those 4 as they all covered 1970.
I hope that helps you with the identifying of your mower.

Giddy all
https://www.pushmowerrepair.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Victa_Model_Info_1955-to-1969.pdf
Found this when I was first looking for info, seem to show all parts for all models in the early range
Cheers
Kirky

That's just part of a section from the green book.

Hello Blumbly,

as a novice to reading Victa models I have a question for you.

First, I understand that the '70' designates year of manufacture - I'm learning!
However, I can't see how the '1' signifies the 'original Cortina engine'.

If this is a 1970 machine, it would have had a G3 Carby, and the box muffler
fitted late in the 1970-71 year (according to my records).

I might add, the 1971 Catalogue(linked above) covers all Cortinas built
from Spring 1970 to end of Winter, 1971. That catalogue says that all Cortinas
had the G3 and the hush tone boxed muffler.

I am keen to learn. Any clarification would be welcome.

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JACK.

Not sure what your question is.
I have some documents here that were given to dealers in regards to engine numbers matching for certain models for the series 70's.On the top of that document 1 is for Cortina.
Not sure what you are talking about with the muffler.I didn't say anything about that.
In my 2 copy's of the Green Book the carby's part number is listed as the same number as the G2.
Which was also the same as the same year model Corvette that I have which also has the G2.
I'm not the one who is an expert on carbys (unfortunately he doesn't come on anymore)but you will find there isn't many sales brochures that list the G2,I guess they didn't run them for very long,one could even say they are rare.Maybe they had problems with them (I don't know),but I can assure you they did exist.I even had the same model with one,but unfortunately it wasn't worth saving.

This leaves 6 months prior to spring 70. Since we dont know its exact build date, then its very possible the G2 Was in its transitional stage and being phased out.

But from my limited knowledge also, I had always thought that the G2 had been deleted before 1970?

The best way to be sure is to check the manuals for Corvette As a comparrison and see what year the G3 started, as this will indicate how far the G2 went for both models.

Im not clear on the Term Cortina 1? I thought the Original Cortina was just Cortina" and the later models were cortina 2...2St and Cortina 4st?


Just curious:)