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Howdy, just thought I'd add some pics of my play mower!!

It started life as a white over red, VC SPORTS, but it's now my VC RAT! Flat black paint, 8 inch white walls all round, (had to modify the front end somewhat), functional chrome exhaust, (cracks a nice note too), and flames. I even made my own sticker for the cowl. It's fully functional, and I love the comments I gat when I mow my nature strips!

The engine is all original, points and the G3 carb.

HAHHAH, great stuff, I love the upside down handles!

Thats sick as, I have similar thoughts on doing things like this to a few newer mowers I will have turning up sooner or later

If you were to get a metalic red/brass paint, and paint the white cap in the air filter, it might end up looking like a performance automotive airfilter!

Not to sure about the bigger wheels on the front.Should have done it in gloss black them it would be.....well SNAP!!Interesting none the less.Should find some other wheels maybe like mag wheels,hey get some chrome wheels I'd like to see that.Good work, defiantly different.

What exactly is going on there with that chrome exaust Joe, I just cant make it out?

It's the hot rod look.

Yes, but I'm wondering what is actually going on there, how has it been done?

It's the Rat Rod look. Flat black paint, big wheels with white wall tyres, a touch of chrome, and red gloss flames. The chrome exhaust is actually a section of a lawn mower handle, off a rover if I remember correctly. The muffler is the standard VC, gutted, with the bottom exit welded shut, and the chrome pipe silver soldered into the top front of the muffler. The upside down handle is designed to give it a sleeker look. You can't see it in the pic, but the flat black paint work continues up the handle to enhance the look. The air filter is also mounted on a piece of chrome handle bar. The catcher was green and came from a fully green Mustang. Plastic primer and flat black paint.

It's the main advertising piece for my business.

Just because I could......... hahaha

It's quite a look!

I love interesting restorations, it shows that you don't always need to do the same old thing!

this is like what makes the mower shop fun..... rat roddin yo victa lol (SUP DAWG IM CUT MI LAUWN)

myself i think the wheels should have been bigger...cause that would have made it look like a lowrider


i can just think of someone like Hilltop hoods makin a video with that thing and the lowrider music playing in the backround.....

lo..ri..da.......mows alittle lower.....


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Hi kori.......that last post....

Hey Greg, how about this for a Formula 1 look?
Wouldn't that turn some heads!!

WOW!!!

Where is that one from Darryl, that's one of the most impressive 'Custom' jobs i've seen yet!

Hi Ty, it is digitally created mate by digital artists...check out the website....Click HERE for some more info...
The mower looks great tho, doesn't it!

Bugger, I was hoping that was real, that would be awesome.

Then again, this now creates an opportunity for anyone here who is good with plastic or fiberglass!

sorry i was tired... and it seemed funny at the time.... but most things do until you post them...



i thought it would be funny to say "lo ri da mows alittle lower" ( ) but nevermid cause no one got it.....

Okay! I have a new project!! Thats cool!

Not real sure how you get a rotary mower working with a piston pointing vertical.

Probably not an easy task that one! hahaha. It'd only have to look that way. I've got enough engine parts here to make things look weird. hahaha

OK Greg make the formula 1 mower.I know you could do it.I'll pick it up when it's ready.

Im thinking the only way you could actually do that would be with a modified bike emgine, tuned to hell so it will scream 13,000rpm no trouble, then bevel reduce the RPM to spin the disc.


To be a propper F1 mower it would have to scream.