OutdoorKing Repair Forum Forums Finding and Swapping Tip & Curb Side Finds Tin'y in Mitchell opening day haul!

Went to the tip shop in Mitchell today, which has been bought by the mob from Tiny's Green Shed in Mugga Lane, and is no longer ridiculously overpriced and understocked!

Jeffrey and I were down there today at 8:30 when they opened the doors for the first time, and we bolted straight for the mowers (we knew some of what was there, thanks to a tip off from Joe)

Here is the haul:











The first one is actually a Silver Streak of the Vortex era, not a Vortex

Here's a little more, Bob the sports has those Auto-drive look alike wheels without teeth, like yours.


And the Twin has an interesting Catch Lever.


We also grabbed a couple of really nice lightweight catchers, I'll grab a few pics shortly!

The pidgeons swooped on the twins air filter cap!!

Yeah the [Censored] pigeons got that and the fuel cap even before we got there.Those [Censored] pigeons can be fast.

Its ok I will hit the bulk rubbish with vengeance and score them this weekend

what model is the VC 160?

1971-72 VIII VC-160 standard cast base (Mark IIIA).

Also grabbed a very sad 1971-72 V111 VC-160 on a auto cast base (MKIIIB) from Mugga Ln, forgot to take shots before it was stripped down.

It had weird massive white wheels, and the 8" Victa rear wheels up front, with a grey auto drive cowl, and no starter.

I'm stripping it back and putting the engine and cowl of the one above to make a complete MKIIIB, the only one of the 4 VC-160's I don't have.

Well technically you could say there's 7, but the only difference counted to reach that is a subtle cowl variation, there are 4 distinct VC-160 bases!

That's just no good.We may have wanted to see it.

Thats a good haul there fellas.