Hi All,
Ok TC I'll bite and say that this one has certainly had the hand of tidy up merchant play with it. The engine on this one will have come from somewhere else as it's not the original and if it was then the machine would've originally been finished in powder coated Kermit Green. If one looks closely at the photo of the ID plate you can clearly see the roughly hand painted tell tale signs of a paint brush.
But I strongly feel that this machine was one of the very early built Eagle Farm mowers prior to the Powder Coating line being commissioned and thus it was still painted in hammertone green and that was around 1985 and thus why someone has mixed up some household paint that was somewhat close and brush painted over the top to tidy it up. The reel would've been finished in Black and as such it's either been freshly painted up for a sale at some stage or even replaced to to the original one being damaged or worn down to it's limit. Only the person that's done this will ever know.
Anyway that's my throw on this machine.
Cheers,
BB.
