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This past friday, another package arrived at my doorstep from my friend Gary. Again there was another rarer Hoover item inside. This was a model 80 Norca upright from 1939-1942. Check out the molded "NORCA" letters on the hood. This was very much like our Hoover model 305 from the same period...

This is just your average run of the mill Hoover model 28 that they made thousands and thousands of, right? Look closely....

Well....today my good friend Jimmy (aka Vibrabeat) came by and we went to the Canfield Swap Meet in Canfield, OH. We were SUPPOSED to find car "stuff". It turned out to be very wet and rainy and more of a vacuum day as you can see from the photos. This first pic is a gift from Jimmy himself (a...

Here is the end result of a nice gift that I received from my friend, John, in Australia. Is this the Aussie Dial a Matic? --Tom

This is my newest find outside of any vault cleaners. It is a Hoover model 961. It was in total pieces at a vac shop. It was all in a box. EVERY screw had been removed so it was a big jigsaw puzzle that needed to be put together with no picture to go by. The motor was the worst because even the...

I had the chance to visit the Hoover vault last month as they were shutting down the building. I was able to salvage some items. They had a sale of all of the rest of the machines post 1970 models at the end of November. I was able to grab a few there too. Nothing was auctioned off. It is bitter...

Does anyone out there in Vacuumland have a blue Hoover cord with the word "Hoover" embossed on the plug? I would be more than happy to buy it from you and pay you the shipping. I have come across a very nice Hoover Areodyne model 42 that needs a new blue cord. It could be from a model 82 Connie...

Well you always hear about something someone bought at a flea market for $1 and it is worth a lot more...well it finally happened to me. I picked up this Hoover model 800 at my local vac shop. I wanted it for parts. It had the handle completely gutted. They had taped a long cord with a Hoover...

Here is this very unusual 707 that should be done up in a wild scheme of greens. This one is a powder blue similar to the Penncrest machines of the era. This one is from about 1974 as it wears the taupe base, taupe wheels, and has a plastic bag collar. This is the before. It is in very good...

Here is the latest haul from thrifting today. We did well aned the weather was nice and dry. Stephen from D.C. came in on Friday to do some Hoover searching. He found several that he liked. --Tom

Well here they are. Buffalo Joe was here this weekend on a Thunderbird run (more on that later). So we did a little thrifting this afternoon and came up with quite a bit. We found the blue U4195 Convertible for $4 at the Hartville Flea Market along with the brown Hoover Advantage upright which...

Well folks out there in Vacuumland, another Hoover has found its way to my doorstep this evening. Patty, an employee of the Hoover Historical Center stopped by tonight with her husband carrying a Hoover Convertible model 1020 serial number 269,000+ (1969-1971). They had been to the auction of...

Here it is fresh from the flea market. I am also $12 lighter in the pocket too. However it is worth it. This is the May 1988 version of the Hoover 80th anniversary Elite. It is serial number 2110, model number 4473-080. So this was the 2110th one off of the line. Does anyone know how many were...

They just seem to fall out of the sky here. This morning friends of ours stopped by to drop off an orange model 34 Convertible, a 1964 era Hoover hairdryer, and a Concept One self propelled. I was at an estate sale and bought a ragged model 704 with a very strange bag on it (a whole $1 bought...

Without really trying, I ran across a few more vintage Hoover cleaners. I was at the local Restore which supports Habitat for Humanity and found a nice but dirty Hoover Convertible model 1010 from about 1967 and a nice but dirty model U4109 with a top fill bag. Both were very reasonable and had...

This just arrived today. The Hoover Floor a Matic model 3616. It differed from the original model only in color and best of all, a headlight. I like the machines that light up the best. I have looked for years for one. I turned one down that Jeff Parker had found at a flea market, so I have had...

I picked this up at the Hoover Store. It was a trade in and they gave it to me. I have run across three or four of them which leads me to believe that it was not a homemade job. Let me know what you think. It is a model 800 with no other markings. --Tom

Here is another vacuum find in North Canton. It is a well used Hoover 1060 circa 1966-1968. It was missing its lens so I stuck on a Guardsman lens for now. Jeff Parker asked to have this gem as the 1060 is one of his favorites and he has not had a "new" one to play with for awhile. I found it at...

I have had a busy week here in North Canton. The Hoover cleaners just seem to be everywhere. I have not really been looking either! The 1939 model 305 in black on top of the box came from my local vac shop. (I just never know what he might have!). The Floor a Matic, blue stick cleaner, yellow...