Another Labor Day Find.....Visions of Queen Anne Gold and Antique White colors....

[rugmaster37]

This was a Craigslist find that only cost me $5.00. Yes I had to drive to Troy Michigan to buy it, but the highlight of that trip; such as it may be is that I saw the Rexair Headqarters on Big Beaver Road. I got this the Friday of Labor Day weekend.

The second in line model down from the TOL Eureka Golden PowerTouch, I've decided that this machine will make a wonderful parts donor for my TOL Golden PowerTouch Eureka that has been waiting for a new bag for several years as the original one the zipper went kaplutt on it.

The hood is nicer too, so that will be used as well.

I hate to butcher this lovely little lamb, but sometimes you have to to restore that wonderful TOL machine you may have.

Anyway this is the machine I got out of an old mans estate.

The 1972 Golden Eureka TwoSpeed....Model 2073 A

http://s217.photobucket.com/albums/cc199/westinghouse1963/Eureka Golden Upright/?albumview=slideshow

 

[hoover1060]

Nice find..

I love those old Eurekas, they were SO 70's!!

You have a bit later version, with the plastic cord hooks. That was made in '73 or later.

 

[rugmaster37]

You have a bit later version.............

Okay,

Again good to know. I was unsure how long this model was produced, becasue I had seen a lower end model, without the Boxtop bag, but a moss green, and antique white one a few years back and it had metal cord hooks. Lack of funds and the price being asked prevented it making it's way into my trunk. I think they wanted like $50.00 for it at a outdoor yardsale/antique swapmeet kind of thing. Like Alsip, but 1/4 size...LOL

I remember turing on one foot, and swinging my neck around when she told me the price was firm.

I was quite suprised to see that it ( the new find), had plastic cord hooks too!


Chad

 

[petek]

Aaaah those shiny box top Eurekas are possibly my favorite vacuums. Well worth the drive, heck you were half way to my house getting it.

 

[rugmaster37]

Well worth the drive, heck you were half way to my house get

Pete,

Occasionally when I get the bug, I drive up to Port Huron to watch trains. My other passion besides cars and vacuum cleaners. And as you've stated you live like across the Blue Water from there correct?

Box Top bag machines are my favorite too. I rememebr being a newbie, and seeing those machines when I started collecting. My first was a MonKey Wards upright with a Cord Reel and the boxtop. By far the nicest machine I had in my collection back then. I found it in a buyout of the trade ins from a Rainbow distributorship. It never made it in the store. Straight to my trunk and then completly restored on my own time.

Another collector has it now thankfully, whom I know and has kept it absolutly pristine. So my first BoxTop Dream lives on..just a few hours from me anyway..

Chad

 

[petek]

I'm about a mile or less from the bridge on the other side. Trains have always been one of my hobbies, probably why I worked for the railroad 30 years LOL My next door neighbors an engineer, he usually grabs the trains in Port Huron coming in from Chicago and takes them on to Toronto thru the tunnel

 

[aeoliandave]

Must run in our blood with vacuums and organs. Trains have always fascinated me. My Grade 6 teacher Mr Ellis took me and two other fellows out to a country bridge in his red & black Mini Minor to watch the last Canadian Steam Locomotive make it's final journey west, I think on the CPR London trackline. That would have been in the mid to late 1960s? Pete?

Since then a few steam train clubs have got their engines running again and do short sightseeing rides as they tour & show across SW Ontario every fall.

And of course I have my Lionels...

Dave

http://www.steam-train.org/

 

[countryguy]

I'm not a train hobbyist but I do work for a railroad....if that counts LOL

Gary

 

[petek]

I'm retired from the railroad LOL thankfully

 

[countryguy]

I sure wish I was retired too! This place is run by crazy people and I do mean crazy!

Gary