A trip to Rugsucker’s shop
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My, My, what car is that? What machines are in there?
Wow, looks like quite a haul! Sure wish I were able to make the trip! Although I'm not looking to add any vacs to my collection, I do know he's got a lot of parts and attachments I could use. And by the way, I have a model 90 Lewyt (aka the Golden Lewyt) in my collection just like the one on top in the 3rd picture. Here's a pic of mine. I know the upholstery nozzle and dust brush in the pic don't match, just had them on hand at the time.
Jeff
Wow, there’s definitely some great finds! That Transit connect certainly holds a lot!
"-what car-" Ford van. "-what vacuums-" 2 complete Electrolux in their original boxes,MANY 50s,60s Kenmore (1complete in its original box), gold Compact with flowers and power nozzle in hassock,Tristars,Lewyt,Filtex, Singer upright,RCA Whirlpool and MORE but no room for partridge in a pear tree! This trip was from CA desert. A previous collector came from NM. Anyone closer want to make the easy drive?!?
--and a black and red Eureka Ironside and a Panasonic and more. Who will be next?
What do you have for Filter Queen?
I just tried to show 7 pictures. I think 4 went through. I could show 100 pictures if it would not waste my time touching and selecting to not have it work or you could come see in person or I could throw it all in the dumpster! I continue to not like my new phone or the new Vacuumland.
Thank you. Just clicked that CheeseWonton had mentioned the Ford Transit Connect.
Thank you for the list BTW!
Whew! Just arrived home. California to Tennessee, load the van and back home in 8 days. No certificates of achievement from the pooh-leece either! I exercised a truly rare degree of adult restraint O_O
Lets see, it i's a long wheel base Ford Transit Connect XLT. Inside are three layers of vacuums. Three Tristars including a butterscotch colored C-8 with the Eureka power nozzle complete in the storage box. A Lux Diamond Jubilee and two Olympias, one of which has perfect metal but the plastic upper body melted so I need to make one good machine out of the two. Ten or so 1960s Kenmores including one from the mid 60's that appears to have never been used with the serial number matching box. There's a Eureka Ironsides in there, a couple of Lewyts, and gorgeous Singer S-3 that will be the lead Singer in what I call my choral section ( various Singer vacuums ). Oh yeah, some vintage Kenmore power nozzles, a pair of bump and ding Whirlpool Imperials that hopefully I can make one nice one out of and a really rare late 1950s Whirlpool power nozzle. Several vintage hoses for the old Kennys and a really cool find, a German made Viking power nozzle apparently sold for only a short time with the V720 before they switched to the Vibra Groomer. Oh yeah, a Filtex. LA company so I had to have it ( I'm originally from LA ). I didn't realize how heavy it is.
Tennessee is a beautiful state with gorgeous mountains and I don't think their highway engineers have the slightest idea how to make a straight road. Even the freeways are curvy so if you are a hoon like me It's surprisingly fun driving on their interestates. Even the freeways in their cities have lots of diabolical curves but you have to pay attention to the signs because the interchanges come fast and furious and your exit might be on the other side from what you expected.
That is the vacuum I grew up with as a kid. From looking at ads it is the 1957 model, same year I was born.
Almost forgot there is a Panasonic MC9420 in there too.
Took I-40 from Barstow CA to just north of Knoxville, then split off to I-81. Snowed like crazy on the trip out going through Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Temps down to -6C ( 21F) and blowing snow. I-40 crosses some really high altitudes in Arizona and New Mexico, upwards of 7,200 feet ( 2195 meters for our European and New Zealand friends ) and the cold caused my washer fluid reservoir to freeze and break, which made the first half of the trip across pure misery trying to keep the windshield clean with all the spray mixed with the de-icing fluid Arizona uses and the cinders New Mexico throws on the road for traction. And now I have to dig out the reservoir and see if I can patch it up somehow.
Props to Arizona and New Mexico for keeping the roads plowed, de-iced and driveable. I brought chains for the front and cables for the rear tires just in case ( the van is front drive ) bud didn't need them. Traffic was moving along at 75 mph even with blowing snow! The snow was so dry it wasn't sticking to anything, even the windshield. So weird to drive in blowing snow with the wipers off. Nothing like the wet "Sierra Cement" I am familiar with. And as soon as I hit the Oklahoma state line the clouds disappeared and the roads were dry. Perfect weather all the way home. Funny though I left Holbrook AZ this morning and it was 34 F ( 2C ). By the time I was 30 minutes into California I had to turn the air conditioning on ! Nice and warm here but the day I left was bitter cold and windy, but no snow.
Props to Arizona and New Mexico for keeping the roads plowed, de-iced and driveable. I brought chains for the front and cables for the rear tires just in case ( the van is front drive ) bud didn't need them. Traffic was moving along at 75 mph even with blowing snow! The snow was so dry it wasn't sticking to anything, even the windshield. So weird to drive in blowing snow with the wipers off. Nothing like the wet "Sierra Cement" I am familiar with. And as soon as I hit the Oklahoma state line the clouds disappeared and the roads were dry. Perfect weather all the way home. Funny though I left Holbrook AZ this morning and it was 34 F ( 2C ). By the time I was 30 minutes into California I had to turn the air conditioning on ! Nice and warm here but the day I left was bitter cold and windy, but no snow.
Obtw, I saw at least three GE Roll Easys, a Westinghouse MC-1 and two more Singer R3s, Filter Queens and old Electroluxes out the hooter, Eureka canisters, and two of this bizarre Lewyt canisters Rugsucker would have to explain. More Hoover and Eureka uprights than I could count.
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Sounds lovely! I am just starting my much smaller trek up to to Wellington (7 hour drive) to see friends, see things, etc, but also to see Tony! Thank you for the list.
Yes, I'm pretty sure you're right on the 1957 date for the Lewyt. And although you can't tell in the pic I posted, the hose ends and wands are anodized with kind of a gold tint, which I think might be why it was called the Golden Lewyt. Always great to add a vacuum to your collection of the same make & model you grew up with! That's why I HAD to have a Lux XXX and a Kenmore "Torpedo Tank" in my collection! Mom cleaned the house with the Lux, and the Kenmore was used in the basement and to clean out the cars. Only thing that would make it better would be if the ones in my collection were the ones that actually belonged to my parents.
Jeff
That is the best, the actual thing.
Jeez, never in 70+ years of driving in the Upper Midwest, where temps are routinely below zero degrees Fahrenheit, have I had windshield-washer fluid freeze. Arizona ww fluid did you in at a mere 21F (-6C), I'm sorry to say. But what a haul you brought home. Congrats, enjoy!
Besides thousands of ICE marauders in Minneapolis, our streets are solid ice, with below-zero temps forecast for the coming week. Auto body shops are filled to overflowing.
Besides thousands of ICE marauders in Minneapolis, our streets are solid ice, with below-zero temps forecast for the coming week. Auto body shops are filled to overflowing.
Coming as I do from California the auto parts stores do not stock windshield washer fluid with de-icing agent in it. Most of us just use straight water. Not the first time this has happened. Same problem with my wife's Avalon several years ago and it can get downright cold at night in our high desert. I used to be able to buy anti freeze washer fluid from VW / Audi but they are not stocking it here either. I have a big jug of the good stuff in the van for use after I fix the reservoir I bought at a truck stop in New Mexico.
You came back in one piece at least. Good luck for the reservoir fix!
It was a good trip. I-40 is a scenic highway. I didn't realize Oklahoma had such wooded rolling terrain. Scanning the radio all the time you hear some really weird stuff. Even heard what I am pretty sure is a Navaho language radio station in New Mexico. Good trip but today I have low energy.
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