It's a rear discharge Vulcan Norm ,it's just a little confusing with the Big Bob Images on the top of the page but doesn't matter.
I just noticed the Vulcan has a Pope catcher.
Norm is correct about the starting issue, you can turn the mixture screw on the carby outward to richen the fuel mix.
Hopefully the air cleaner is clean and the mower doesn't have a spark problem.
This Vulcan being a 1979 may not have electronic ignition as I think the Magnetron Ignition came out in 1982 so this mower may have dirty points .I mostly just fit a later coil on the early briggs motors to eliminate the points.
If no one here is interested in the Vulcan I'm sure it would be snapped up fairly quickly with a Free ad on Gumtree , I see a lot of people just put items on their nature strip with a sign the reads free and the items disappear.
