So I've been collecting for just over a year and in that very very short period of time my answers for questions like what got me into it or why I love this stuff have evolved dramatically and I'm guessing will continue to evolve, not change but grow.
The way you're so passionate about the accuracy and all of the fine details of the PT models with everything working perfectly in unison, shows me why you love it! What I see is a guy who sees the PT and certain models around it as being the first time that Victa got it, in your opinion, all correct! The way everything lines up and fits perfectly and the engine and the list goes on for you.
I see this like, you like DA Vinci paintings and I like Picasso.
Are either of us wrong? Or is there one thats a better artist? NO to both, a big NO to both because it's personal taste that dictates what we find appealing and we have very little say in our person taste.
I'll be straight. The power torque models bar the top end all look like crap to me, actually I only like the chrome looking one. Ugly boxy engine, same cheap plastic cowl for all, a choice of a base of weak sheet metal or a more expensive alloy cast that actually broke easily with big rocks, black catchers only. To me the power torque signalled the end of getting to choose a piece of art to mow your lawn with from a huge range of choices, to getting the most efficient and cheap product and all for profit margins. Taylor'd to certain markets. To me the power torque was the end to making mowers look great!!!
So the way you feel about some of the older models is how I feel about anything that came after 1980. I didn't want to be so straight about it, but you asked in such a broad statement about mowers from before 1960, and then you picked the wrong model as the argument for its beauty. I'm sorry but ask every mower person the question on what's better looking a model 1 Rotomo or a power torque commando. I'm sorry but I'd say a minimum %95 of the population would say M1 any day. The PT was where style went to die...... yeah profits for the company went to grow but style went to die.
