OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums Finding and Swapping Rare Finds & Donations Finally got my little mitts on a "Victa18"

Picked this up for $30.
Some Information would be very much appreciated..

Paul in my small amount of experience i will go out on a limb and call it as a victa 18 model 5 series 3. i dont think the motor is original, nice score for 30 bucks man.
Sean

Hey Paul perhaps a point of interest I was poking around the boneyard in Geelong the other day and found an 18 with engine number AC 65797. She is in a pretty sad way.

Slash, Providing it hasn't had water in it, pull the motor, put in a set of bearings,seals and maybe a set of rings, should be good to go for another 50 years but then if it doesn't rain up your way it will be good for at least another 100 years or when we can't get petrol anymore

I haven't picked it up I'm still debating it. It is the proud owner of a single wheel and that's moth eaten. She's pretty run down and well raided. I took the engine number to see if I could work out if it happened to be quite early I would have snaffled it straight up. When I was looking at this thread I noticed they're [Censored] near twins.

i will put my 20 cents worth in
BUY IT
then another
and another. nice mowers. you can put other wheels on it man.

She's also missing all tinwork, the tank and that badge on the handlebars. I'm not shy of collecting lost souls

you may need it for spares for one of your next 18s

Now a bloke can't argue with logic like that. I do have a plan for a classic style alloy base mower and my scout it too pitted............looks like i might need it more than i realised.
Although it will probably cost $15 in scrap and your flash one was $30