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A lot of scraping and buffing this morning





Still more paint and surface rust to remove, getting there.

Wow Paul C fantastic job so far,you keep going I might let you do a couple of mine as well.

Seriously rethinking this whole repainting thing, it is a shame to put paint over top of these



Wife's not home :-)

i'll say mate, you could eat your dinner offa those things!!

Shiny shiny ! Tomorrow they will be grey !

Cleaning up the shed today and when the sun came out I gave these a coat of etch primer

A glorious day and my last one of holidays, my new reamer arrived in the mail so I wasted no time in finishing the engine





All went together nicely, head is on loose until I time the ignition. Forecast is for rain tomorrow and Sunday so I finished cleaning up the base and applied the undercoat

oh for a beautiful day and being able to do what you want with it.....

Totally awesome work there Paul keep up the good work.We'll make a restorer out of you yet.
What are those old looking trains in the back ground? They look old.

Thanks, the engine is an old Budgie brand push a long that my Dad bought back from the UK in the 70's. I have a large collection of Australian O Gauge trains as well as Hornby and Bassett Lowke tinplate. This morning I pulled out the finger

Cool I've never herd of that brand,but then again there's properly a lot of them I haven't herd of.I'd be interested in seeing more of them.Maybe start something in the off topics.As if it wasn't for mowers I'd most likely collect trains.I just can't do both.I use to have some trains myself,but the mowers took over.
The base has come out fantastic good work.

Nice job Paul What paints are you using?

Wattyl Killrust deep Brunswick green and cowl and tank will be Galmet Avacado green.

Did some more painting today

Timed the engine and gave the cowl a test fit

Doing some more on this one and looking at my spare fuel taps, I have one that I think has a cork in it as there is a screw in the tap knob. Would this be suitable to use ? It is CC branded, if not what were they used on ?

I put the cork tap aside and used the one that came off my ex-automatic



Fitted up the tank and cowl





Getting there but in no hurry :-)

Looking Sweet Paul!

Yeah that cc tap is spot on for a 3, cork tap is more Villiers and others, not for this model or any earlier victas.

I have done a little more



I am on holidays now so I am hoping to finish thing off.

looking amazing there .. now i know what i have sitting in my shed !! base is a lot worse for wear though , beaten up badly

looking smicko there Paul, hope you get it done on the hols mate.

Got her back on four wheels this morning

Made some good progress today, sorted out the choke and fitted the decal





I repainted the badge and left it to dry, today I sanded it off and fitted it. Held on at the moment by some brass screws and nuts until I source the correct fittings



I painted the base a few months ago but I am not taking any chances of petrol spoiling it just yet





Not much left now, just have to fit the handle bars.

Beautiful work Paul...

I do love the Concord decal best, and the badge looks sweet.

You found the correct CC tap in your stash to, nice.

The screws look ok. Just get some high dome 3/16 screws and half nuts from the fastener place if you want them perfect.

Your not gonna run the genuine carby, long snorkel and Smiley face choke on her?

Shes a very nice early model 3 mate, Youve done a fantastic job.

Cant wait to see the final runout

how sweet does that look !!! better each time , a great job your doing with it .

hey there Mr 6 , did they have a long snorkle n choke ? mine i think is the same machine and it too had short one same deal as pauls . ended up on a coffee table hehehe

Hi HT6 & Vccomm,

Thanks for the comments, I have the snorkel and choke but seeing as this would spend most of the time under the bench I wanted to fit the short choke. I thought the carb was correct ? Has Victa 125 on the side, which one should it have, I have spares :-)

aaaaah ok , yeh i take most of mine off the machine , dont fair well folded i found out the hard way !! was just curious as the one i have did come with short and the big black air cleaner .
circlip carb on it now ? or am i looking wrong and if i can ask , where did the decal come from , never seen them yet as repro's .
i guess the closer it gets the more questions now

No worries, I have seen them with the large choke as well. I have seen old mower shop pics with them fitted. The decal came from Rustic Spares, John is a member here.

http://www.rusticspares.com.au

I have the picture just not sure of copyright issues, I will post a link when I find it.

My mistake, link below

http://www.nkrc.com.au/featured/karting-step-back-time-1963-1969/

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