huskyvacs
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A new vacuum joins the collection! I just picked this up on Saturday when Goodwill had their half-off sale. I had not been to Goodwill for about 6 months prior to this and I was shocked that the vacuums were so cheap now. They had them all at $9.99, before they were all at about $19.99 to $25.99.
So this one was $9.99 and with the 50% off discount it came out to $4.99! I did not plug it in in the store or yet since bringing it home, so not sure how it sounds but that doesn't bother me as it will be getting a ground up restoration (hopefully by this summer) anyway.
The bag is packed solid as a rock and the entire time I was turning it over and manipulating it, white powder was spilling out. The age old enemy of vacuums....carpet perfume powder. The package of belts that came with the vacuum are OEM Eureka belts and it has a trademark of 1999 on the packaging, so that gives you an idea of when this vacuum was last touched.
I can not find much information on this model other than a newspaper ad, as well as there is very little photos or videos about it. It seems like most collectors have either not bothered with collecting this model, or it might be a rare model. Looking at ads from 1978 and 1977 it seems like Eureka did not bother giving this vacuum any proper name. Like how Nissan and Toyota called their trucks in the 1980s just "Pickup" or "Hardbody", Eureka just seems to have officially called it "Upright" in the advertisements of similar models.
So this one was $9.99 and with the 50% off discount it came out to $4.99! I did not plug it in in the store or yet since bringing it home, so not sure how it sounds but that doesn't bother me as it will be getting a ground up restoration (hopefully by this summer) anyway.
The bag is packed solid as a rock and the entire time I was turning it over and manipulating it, white powder was spilling out. The age old enemy of vacuums....carpet perfume powder. The package of belts that came with the vacuum are OEM Eureka belts and it has a trademark of 1999 on the packaging, so that gives you an idea of when this vacuum was last touched.
I can not find much information on this model other than a newspaper ad, as well as there is very little photos or videos about it. It seems like most collectors have either not bothered with collecting this model, or it might be a rare model. Looking at ads from 1978 and 1977 it seems like Eureka did not bother giving this vacuum any proper name. Like how Nissan and Toyota called their trucks in the 1980s just "Pickup" or "Hardbody", Eureka just seems to have officially called it "Upright" in the advertisements of similar models.