OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums Finding and Swapping Rare Finds & Donations VC-Mustang S

After 4 months of getting this organized I finally got it dropped off and had it sent to me.Wow it took some time,as the seller moved just after it was all arranged.
Here is some pictures of it.

Now it didn't arrive in the greatest of conditions as the catcher that was near perfect arrived with many many cracks,of which it didn't leave with.Also the base which also wasn't the greatest,but was fixable now has a crack near the back left wheel which makes it not worth repairing now.




However it is a VC-Mustang S,one of only two that we have found so far.Engine does need some work as it is partially seized I'd say its got some rust as water came out the carby,but all good I have a few spares that I'm sure I'll be able to fix it.


These were produced from 1976-1978 Victacode V207.This one as you can see was in the middle at 1977.

Still haven't cleaned it yet I'm sure it will look a bit better after a wash.So will need some bits but I'll put that up in the wanted section.
Any comments are welcome.

Hi Blumby, i hate to tell you this but a mate of mine scrapped one of these about 6 months ago. He considered to be too old and not cost effective to repair and make a decent profit. RIP

Well I guess that is just another gone from history never to be seen again.

luv it Blumbly. i have one of the old blue and purple ones but have to say i have never seen a vc mustang s. thanks for sharing mate.

No they don't seem to be very many of them. I've also noticed that the ones that have been found (including this one)all seem to be down in the south areas. I wonder if it was only made for down that way.

Gave myself a little job today (or so I thought).I really should have been doing my restores,but I thought yeah this won't take very long.Wrong,oh no,how wrong I was.
Here look at what I mean.


See what I mean.I found out why the engine didn't turn over.


Not one of the bearings where any good.Even the conrod bearing is stuffed.So now I have it apart I couldn't leave it like that.So I now have found enough parts to rebuild the engine.Have cleaned everything and hopefully put it together tomorrow.Bugger a little job turned into 2 days work.

Well I'm happy to say I did it rebuild the engine and now ready for it's first start with basically a new engine.
Some photos of the journey.

The new second hand crank from a 1977 VC-Mustang.

Bottom end together.

Run out of the engine paint I had.Not happy with this one as it appears to be a matt colour.Not good.





Ready for the first start.I just ran out of daylight.When I get another base for it I will do the restore on it,but at least I won't have to do much to the engine now.

If you are interested I uploaded the mower running for the first time.Wow I did good job.Not even a puff of smoke and runs well.Still a little problem with the accelerator cable.Must still have a kink I didn't find as it was bent in many places at the controller end.Here the YouTube link.

Nice one. so where do you buy your spare parts from for engines? outdoor king i suppose

No just parts I had here.Running out of bits now.

just curous did you get this mower from Melbourne cause I saw one of these model mustangs on ebay from Melbourne a few months back

Yeah that's the one was in August. It just took 4 months to get it transported.

Oh nice :-) yea thought it might of been cause I havnt seen many around either.

No there doesn't seem to be many of them. As I had up the top this is only 1 of 2 found so far,and bigted he knew of one but was wrecked out. I'm sure there is more out there just a matter of finding them. I wanted one the moment I seen the one vccomm found. So I was waiting and watching for it. Also what I have found so far is that those 3 were found in erther Victora or I think vccomm found his in south Australia. So I'm wondering if they were only available in that part of the country.