Hi Everyone!
New to forum. I love reading the threads on various models of Hoovers.
I restored my Mom's green Model 31 years ago, and while caregiving for Mom and Dad before they died last year for two years, it returned with me to the household to work. It picked up everything Mom's newer Hoover Windtunnel missed! I had that old house in top shape in no time thanks to good old Model 31!
My brother has Mom's old Convertible model U4127 - the 1979 green one. His wife also has my grey Decade 80 Convertible and WILL NOT part with both of them, as she loves them cleaning up after a 5 year old and a dog and cat.
I have the burgundy Convertible U4387, just found at the thrift store, where it said "take me home." And my longtime upstairs Convertible U4371-045 in orange, which is probably the last domestic Convertible made, it lacks beater bars, but brushes are hard and do that job.
Funny story about Mom and the Model 31. When she bought it in 1958 her next door neighbor came over to help her assemble it. They got everything put together, and then it came time for the paper bag to be out on that plastic nozzle, and there was a blue rubber liner over that to hold the bag in place. They looked at each other at the same time, thinking the same DIRTY thing.. and burst into laughter and could not stop laughing! (It was like putting on a comdom they thought!)
Anyway, good to be here to share Hoovers and other vacs.
Here is a pic of my late Mom vacuuming with her old Model 31 a year before she died. She had COPD and this old vacuum didn't make her tired at all.
New to forum. I love reading the threads on various models of Hoovers.
I restored my Mom's green Model 31 years ago, and while caregiving for Mom and Dad before they died last year for two years, it returned with me to the household to work. It picked up everything Mom's newer Hoover Windtunnel missed! I had that old house in top shape in no time thanks to good old Model 31!
My brother has Mom's old Convertible model U4127 - the 1979 green one. His wife also has my grey Decade 80 Convertible and WILL NOT part with both of them, as she loves them cleaning up after a 5 year old and a dog and cat.
I have the burgundy Convertible U4387, just found at the thrift store, where it said "take me home." And my longtime upstairs Convertible U4371-045 in orange, which is probably the last domestic Convertible made, it lacks beater bars, but brushes are hard and do that job.
Funny story about Mom and the Model 31. When she bought it in 1958 her next door neighbor came over to help her assemble it. They got everything put together, and then it came time for the paper bag to be out on that plastic nozzle, and there was a blue rubber liner over that to hold the bag in place. They looked at each other at the same time, thinking the same DIRTY thing.. and burst into laughter and could not stop laughing! (It was like putting on a comdom they thought!)
Anyway, good to be here to share Hoovers and other vacs.
Here is a pic of my late Mom vacuuming with her old Model 31 a year before she died. She had COPD and this old vacuum didn't make her tired at all.
