oh the pain ! DUMPSTER KIRBY

[vacuser]

HOW COULD THEY ! THIS HURTS.THE RARE WHITE BAG ?????? OH THE PAIN.

 

[kirbyclassiciii]

I hope you rescued it. . . just saying.

~Ben

 

[charleskirby66]

Ermergerd yer gers!

That is such a beautiful machine.  If I saw that, I'd be in that dumpster in a second!!!

 

[electrolux137]

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There never was a white Kirby bag. It's a gray bag that is very faded. It's hard to say which specific model this is.

The fan housing has the rounded-off edges like the 4C and then the 505~513. (The edges of the fan housing on the 3C and earlier were sharper.)

It has the old-style toggle switch, meaning it wouldn't be newer than a 512. (The new "push-push" switch was introduced on the 513.)

At first, I thought it had a wooden handle grip which was odd, since that style ended with the 2C. (The 3C was the first model to have a rubber grip.) But in looking more closely I realized it's the handle style with the rubber grip but the rubber is gone, leaving just the bare metal underneath.

So it's either a 4C or a 505 through 512.

But any way you look at it, it's a pity it was just discarded.

 

[charleskirby66]

4C

Say what?!  I didn't know there was anything beyond a 3C!  Thanks Charles.  Yes, it is a pity to see such a beauty wasted.  

 

[electrolux137]

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Charles, see:

http://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?9905

 

[electrolux137]

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And:

http://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?9670

 

[human]

Please tell me this story has a happy ending.

 

[tolivac]

PLEASE----Did you fish the Kirby out of the dumpster???I would have!!!!RARE that you see a Kirby dumpstered!

 

[vacuser]

DUMPSTER KIRBY UPDATE

THIS WAS JUST A PICTURE I FOUND. IF I HAD SEEN THIS FOR REAL IT WOULD HAVE BEEN AT MY HOME & GETTING SOME KIRBY LOVE. THANKS FOR THE INFO. ON THE BAG BEING FADED & NOT WHITE. I DID NOT KNOW.

 

[marks_here]

Reply# 9

Awww look at how many you got into a tizzy LMAO

 

[human]

vacuser wrote: IF I HAD SEEN THIS FOR REAL IT WOULD HAVE BEEN AT MY HOME & GETTING SOME KIRBY LOVE.

I reply: The first Kirby I acquired--and still own--is a GSix I rescued from beside a dumpster.

This would have been a great April fool's joke.

 

[charleskirby66]

Not going to lie...

My stomach is still turned from the idea of such a beauty being wasted in a dumpster!  The horror, the humanity!  May peace be upon that Kirby's neglected little soul.

 

[super-sweeper]

Release the bloodhounds! We must locate it at once!