2 years ago when...
was working at my vac shop an elderly lady came in with the exact vacuum as above, but blue. She told me that she bought her Eureka from the local Woodwards department store new in 1967, and paid $99 for it. She has had it ever since and has been her only vacuum....Anyways...it had the original hose on it so I told her to leave me with the vacuum a few days.
I was able to fit a new hose and I had a new still in the plastic bag , cloth filter for the inside. Now with the new hose and cloth filter, I tested it out on the suction guage , it pulled a whopping 90. This was the same as an older Filterqueen.
So the lady returned to the vac shop in a few days and I gave her a quick demo of her newly tuned 1967 Eureka... she was amazed,, and soooo happy.
Off she went.
Then... about 2weeks later, she came back to the vac shop and told me that the Filter queen guys were in town and they went to her house to give her a demo of the new FQ. She allowed them in , and after the demo , the FQ guys were putting the pressure on her to buy. She bluntly told them to GET OUT, and take your FQ with you. MY 1967 Eureka will suck the dirt right out of your FQ!.
I guess they left immediately..lolo
I laughed when she shared this story with me.
She said that when she now vacuums with her eureka it actually lifts the carpet up from the suction, and really pulls out the dirt,and she is very happy.
That was my favourite customer in the two years that I worked in a vac shop.
