I've never been interested in cox myself, fixed a few and never liked them. This one caught my eye though. Not only does the body match the engine, the model pre dates greenfield and the rover rancher by quite a lot. I was surprised by the parts manual, which I found in the manuals section, actually has some info on the model years. i've attached the cover of the manual, and a banner cox did recently, i wish it was higher resolution though.
I am also luck enough that the second mower shop in town sold these back in the day and the shop hasn't changed much sice. I'm sure there is a large picture of one of these on the wall in there. I will hit them up on the weekend, see if they have any info on these early ones.
I know the americans loved creeper gears, their cub cadets and other garden tractors had them, but i've never seen it on an aussie model. I need to clean it up more, but I think it looks too well done to be a modification. I love the idea behind it though. Ranchers 1st gear is basically a crawler anyway but greenfield and cox never had that luxury. I've seen many a cone & corks that have been completely buggered by towing and pushing heavy things. it obviously never really caught on though.
Thanks, Yeah its taken a long time, I can remember studying the rover parts book, wondering if I would ever find all the bits, slowly but surely they do pop up, I am still looking for a few bits though. I've more just been in the right place right time. I'm not entirely sure any of it will be worth anything, to most people its junk, but I'm not about the value, I love the history that's in them.
I've noticed cox doesn't have much of a presence on here, the forum hasn't been posted in in years! would cyberjack possibly have any info?
Cox do seem to have a fair facebook presence, and appear to be somewhat interested in their historical models, I'll hit them up see if they have some info.
