“Oreck” Portapower with wheels!

[gj3476]

So earlier today I went to Hooks vacuum shop and was going to buy Kirby micro magic bags for my G3 I polished and cleaned up until when I was waiting at the register I happen to saw a red orange Portapower with wheels! So I asked the cashier if it’s for sale and said yes so I looked at it and it’s actually a Oreck brand Portapower! Except it’s called the XL Power Pak. I only paid $10.81, a steal! I think this is a rare canister vacuum that Oreck rebranded. Funny, I was wanting a Portapower with wheels and a Oreck XL canister since I got my 1st XL upright couple weeks ago, instead I got 2 vacuums in 1!

 

[gj3476]

Serial number, around the 80’s or 90’s?

 

[gj3476]

Right now it has an envirocare bag but when it gets full I’ll get a shake out bag.

 

[gj3476]

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[gj3476]

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[vac-o-matic]

Score!

That's a great find and a helluva lot better than an Oreck Buster B! I have one but it's black, it was a gift from Kenny Loveland. If I were you, I would continue using the Envirocare cloth bags, I'm sure they do a better job of shielding the motor from dirt than the cloth one would.

 

[madman]

Nice! What an unusual vac.

 

[TheSpiritOf76]

I can tell ya right now....

judging by the hose and attachments, that is way too old to be from the 90s!

 

[gj3476]

TheSpiritof76, actually the hose and attachments are from my Hoover tool set I had for a while, the vacuum came by itself with no tools.

 

[gj3476]

I’m going to guess again but I’m assuming this was made around the mid-late 80’s?

 

[huskyvacs]

KirbyClassicIII's Post# 211851 here states it came out in 1982: http://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?19146

They must be extremely rare because I cannot find any photos of one or any information outside of Vacuumland.

 

[kirbyclassiciii]

GJ3476

Gabriel,

Your Oreck Power Pak XL was made sometime prior to 1984. I would guess this one pre-dates the black version, which replaced this red version after 1984.

~Ben

 

[gj3476]

Huskyvacs, extremely rare? Kewl!!

 

[huskyvacs]

@ Gj3476

No conformation on that, but trying to find other pics of this vacuum in Google Images, I just kept running into the same photos from this thread. Couldn't find any videos on YouTube either. All I could find about it on Vacuumland was just mentions here and there in comments from various members here.

 

[amtraksebo1997]

Woah...

It's almost as if they knew Oreck and Hoover would both one day be owned by the same company, TTI.

 

[thevacomaticiec]

i always   figured it be awesome to have a porta power with wheels  on  this is  niiiiiice   canister  with  wheels  cute set  up