Awesome Kirby Haul!

[hooverjedilord]

So a while back I arranged to meet James Sandilands and get some vacuums off him, well after waiting for him to finish them I was able to collect them last night! And they were AWESOME!

He sold me a lovely Kirby Classic III, a machine I'd been looking for for a long while! It was in beautiful condition, James really did a great job! it doesn't have an original cord, but that's okay, I believe it's from 1977? It's amazing to finally get that dream machine, all I need now is a DS80...
I also bought a Kirby late 509, imported from the USA, at first the condition wasn't great, non original cord and a replacement wheel, and very tarnished but I used a handi butler, that James gave me, to polish it up and now it looks great! For only 100 pounds, it not a bad deal at all!
I also brought Heritage 2 Legend, it's awesome, only cost 20 pounds, and it's in lovely condition!
And I was very kindly given a Hitachi Upright from the 80s, and a Kirby Heritage that needs a lot of work, I also got loads of accessories!
A great evening! James even let me see his vacuum loft and I got to test out his 240v Classic Omega!

 

[kirbyclassiciii]

Tom,

That was cool of James S. to give you that old Classic III and all that other stuff!

~Ben

 

[hooverjedilord]

Yeah it was! I love the classic III, I vacuumed all the stairs and upstairs in the hall, it pulled a lot of crap out of the carpet! I'll take some better photos of it tomorrow!

 

[james]

Glad you are happy with them.
That 509 looks great now, you've done an amazing polish job on it!

 

[hooverjedilord]

Yeah! I'm really happy with how it came out! It was a pleasure to buy them!