Once in a decade vintage vacuum haul !!!

[DesertTortoise]

Look at the old Country Squire station wagon. bnsd60m9200, I bet you have a rotary dial phone at home too

And just to be clear, I'm not being totally sarcastic here. I have a first gen touch tone phone on a land line for a very practical reason. They only require line power to make calls. When the power grid is down and the cell phone system disconbobulated after a big earthquake (remember I live in California in very close proximity to several big active faults), I can still call out and let family members know I'm ok. I have had to do this in the past after a couple of big quakes, so while I also have a cell phone I cling to that old land line and simple phone for it's utility in emergencies.

 

[kloveland]

Will,

Thanks for posting the pictures. Looks like you and Sean had fun and brought home many treasures. Thanks, Sean for storing the Singer, Lewyt and parts that you picked up for me. I probably should have come but I already had plans with two friends from high school last Saturday. Will, show us the restoration pictures after you get finished restoring your Penncrest upright.

Kenny L.

 

[DesertTortoise]

I'd give my left testicle for the green Kenmore

 

[Gr8DaneDad]

Fantastic haul!!! Congrats! What a day.

 

[kenkart]

The pink rug tool

In reply 9 goes to the 56 KenKart, the only machine Sears ever sold with a curved lower wand!

 

[DesertTortoise]

I'm digging the gray Hoover upholstery brush with the red bristles laying in one of the boxes of hoses and fittings. Very cool touch.

 

[super-sweeper]

wow!!!!

TWO Penncrest machines, an ABC power nozzle, AND a Bambi! It's where the rare machines go to die! I wish we got places like that in Florida (ok,I know ONE place, but it's no where near that amount of vacuums!). STELLAR finds, Will!!

 

[DesertTortoise]

It's like Christmas in July. Imagine the fun going through all those boxes and seeing what gems are hidden in there. Like a little kid on Christmas day.

 

[super-sweeper]

Oh, and desert guy,

I too cling to the land-line! Remember when a telephone was something you went to, not something you carried on you? I have a 1966 Automatic Electric rotary phone, only it doesn't ring and I can't dial-out on it. I can pick up the handset and talk to somebody on the line! I also have a 60s Western Electric touch-tone, I'm trying to rewire that now! Is your first generation phone one without the # and * keys?  How did you get it connected to the modern system?


 


I do have ONE vintage working phone.it's a Bell kitchen phone, touch-tone, in beautiful BROWN from 1982/4-ish. It still has it's original phone number on it (people would write it down on the included clear slot, sometimes it went in the middle of the rotary dial!). It's the best thing when somebody calls, the phone could wake the dead!

 


Now, back to Will's awesome findings!

 

[ericaustin]

Yay!

@eurekaprince Will was so kind to pick the goldie up for me! The cordwinder was backwards! Took 5 mins to fix! No kinks in the cord. Now it is in perfect shape! In fact it's so pretty that I just cannot put it in the closet. I have to see it all the time!

 

[constellation86]

Congratulations on the great finds! Could you post some close ups of the Penncrests? Especially the id tags.
Thanks,
Nicholas

 

[floor-a-matic]

<span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;">That TV looks like the one I had when I was a kid; wish I still had it</span>

 

[DesertTortoise]

Supersweeper, it's an old Western Electric "Slimline" touch tone phone with a very heavy steel bottom. Not a modern reproduction but a real deal survivor. It has # and * keys and plugged right into the standard phone jack in my 2007 vintage home. Works just fine.

 

[eurekastar]

Great haul!  Congratulations!  By the way, I know exactly where that hardware store is...Iowa Park, TX.  I went in there often when I lived there.  It's right across from First Baptist Church. 

 

[beerad]

Nice vacuum score !!! And..,

What year is your wagon?

Ow may kms?

 

[suckolux]

Guessing 85 or 86

 

[eurekaprince]

Eric! I agree.... "Goldie" is one pretty Eureka!

The design looks so solid and balanced....very classy. And there's lotsa "muscle" underneath that beautiful body too. I got Dad to buy Model 2083 for Mom when our turquoise Eureka 260 entered retirement age. 2083 had the cream coloured hood, not the stainless steel hood. The Power Touch switchplate has a tendency to crack. But I called Eureka in Canada and ordered a replacement over the phone....my first electrical repair on a vac!

Love the sound of her as she cleans too.

 

[super-sweeper]

Desert guy,

I wish I could message you, can you put some pictures of it in a thread somewhere? I wonder if it's the same model as mine!

 

[kirby519]

I see you came across some nice vintage turbine nozzles. I would like to come across a few of them and see how well they perform. I have seen a few and at the time they were on the market. But never got to try one out at the time. From what I remember it looked like they had the same brush roll as the motorized versions of the day. Would like to see how the original turbines perform compaired to todays lack luster models available today.

Congratulations on your score of a nice Sanitation System. I would be in heaven to score one of those. Also would be equally happy to score the wireless and electric vacuettes. I,m a die hard kirby man and truly appreciate how he designed his machines. I fully beleive he got it right.

 

[bnsd60m9200]

Glad ya'll enjoyed the vacuum porn from Sean and I's haul adventure. my country squire was born in june 1984.

i already cleaned up the penncrest connie and the attachements i cobbled for its tool rack. its a typical plug n play connie.

the next tackle will most likely be getting the penncrest convertible running, and make the two labels for it, and paint "penncrest" on the headlight lens i had a spare of for that style hood. making a new cord guide on the top and original bag will be more difficult. thankfully Fred Stachnik provded detailed photos of the cord guide to be on facebook so i can make a decent fascimile.

the d50 should require little work, except to make the bag hepa fabric lined on the inside. the S&F sanitation system should just need a polish and test to see if it runs. i think it has varnish smchutz on it, but the metal isnt oxidized all that much.

i only brought two boxes of attachments home and its still a bit overwhelming for me. i can't imagine what goes thru sean's head with as much as he bought seeing the 6 boxes of stuff in his garage to go thru. i plan to help him sort thru it.

also look for a thread tonite with photos of whats left for sale from amarillo. there is tons left, and wont be gone till the end of the month.