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VacuumLand – Vintage & Modern Vacuum Enthusiasts

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Thank you all so much, its a pleasure to meet all of you.

I have a buddy that owns a vac shop that has been in business since 1967, and in the same location,,,he has owned it since the late 1980s,and gets a rare machine in once and awhile,so, i'll keep an eye out. He is the local Kirby service center also, so,of course he specializes in Kirbys.

 I got a beautiful Kirby model 560 from him, that i sent back to the plant for rebuilding,and they did a beautiful job on it. I cant imagine it looked any better when it was brand new.

 Of course, the trim,bag, and all is "Sorocco" colored now, but they did leave the original red belt lifter!

Its such a beautiful machine, and shines so brightly, i hate to use it too much!

The last time i stopped by his place,someone had given him the original boxes with handles to a model 500 Filter Queen, in really good shape,not much equipment inside,except for an old dried up bottle of Filter Queen Sudz but did have the original paper work to the machine the boxes went with, along with the order forms and information/pamphlets, ect for ordering additional supplies, i grabbed it all up of course!

If you'd like to talk vacs, please E-mail me, my addy is BW420666@aol.com

Maybe all of us in the area could get together for a Mini Meet sometime, would sure be fun!


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