As Requested, The Kirby Heritage G Prototype "Prometheus"

[lunchboxsean]

Here he is folks, I welcome any and all comments.

 

[lunchboxsean]

 

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[gsheen]

I used to love building these test mules when I worked at Electrolux and love seeing other ones too


 


How on earth did you manage to get it ?

 

[lunchboxsean]

A friend of mine has a vacuum shop at an undisclosed location somewhere in Indiana, sorry I don't want the Kirby people knocking on anyone's door, they're actually pretty notorious for that. A woman came in one day with two of them and traded them for a Simplicity 7 series. She said she pulled them out of a dumpster behind the Kirby factory in Cleveland.

 

[twocvbloke]

Cool, it's a "Generation One"...

That is pretty neat, well, the fact that it's still in one piece, I quite like it's more rounded appearance, and the side trim looks more appealing than the straight things they used on the G3 onwards, shame they had to do the 80's thing and make everything all hard, straight lines when they finally released the Generation3...

 

[Jakesvacs]

Haha! I love it, the styling looks so cool!

 

[brandon_w_t]

Thats an incredibly unique piece of history you have there.


DONT LET IT GO! (unless you want to make some serious $$$ selling lol)

Does anyone else notice that you can see the rotor?
I dont think you can on G series machines.

 

[Sablekid]

Strange indeed. Kinda like it, definetely one of a kind!

 

[vac_whisperer]

Brandon put it best, that is a piece of history!


This is just plain awesome...I wonder how many are in existance?


Does it run?

 

[longlivekirbys]

OMG!

I LOVE ITT!!!!

 

[kirbylover]

Very cool! Is there any sticker on the bottom of the vac?

 

[lunchboxsean]

I thought you guys would like it. To my knowledge there were less than half a dozen of this particular prototype built, but that's just the rumor I heard from the guy I got it from. I also know that one has been scrapped for the Aluminum. There is no sticker on the bottom and no place to put a sticker. The only thing on the bottom is an hour meter and a gauge to measure how many passes you've made. It works perfectly and actually cleans very well, at least as good as any Kirby Generation. When I took the pictures I also took a picture of the bottom but I couldn't get my point and shoot to focus so I took it with my Blackberry, now I can't get my Blackberry to sync so I have e-mailed it to myself from my Blackberry and it is taking forever to receive the e-mail. As soon as I get the e-mail from myself, I will post the pic of the bottom.

 

[lunchboxsean]

Ok so maybe the picture I took was just of the gauges.

 

[broomvac]

Incredible!

Now all it needs is a super spa day to get those scuffs out and get that aluminum shining like a mirror!

Also, how many amps does it draw? Even though there are no stickers on the bottom, there are other ways of finding it out.

And does it use a Heritage style brushroll or Generation style brushroll? Is it compatible with any attachments?