Thank you, John Gregory. I love my Hoover 1178.

[dysonman1]

A huge thank you to my dear friend,John Gregory from Pennsylvania for the spec sheets on my beloved, near perfect Hoover self-propelled model 1178 from late in the run in 1974. Mine has the up-to-the-minute 900 W motor, giving it all the extra suction power a near-perfect upright vacuum cleaner needs. I have had it for a very long time and have never actually done much with it until recently when I retired. I have been doing All the summer cleaning with it. Every home should be a Hoover home.

 

[hooveru4019]

tom its the least i could do for you and the friendship you and i have enjoyed these past 15 years ...you are such an awesome gentleman and i treasure all the hoover cleaners that come from you and still have to this day .......having the 900 watt dam 1178 is an awesome unit right at the cusp of turning into the u6039 for the oyster white edition with sea blue medium for 1975 and the u6007 and u6009 were carried into the 1975 high performance collection for they were just released in early 1974 in all taupe but with the front and rear bag doors were colored the rest of the unit was taupe .... hoover made them part of the running change to the oyster white body updates keeping their original colors for the front panel and bag doors and added the co ordinated colored rubber furniture guards and powerdrive handle grips from the light taupe bland look..... hoover also updated their base nameplates to the new modern color co- ordinated labels refreshing the unit to match the cleaner from the older early 1178 heavily embossed lettering which is my favorite........ all made in 1975....... with one exception the u6009 had a special large script in an ornate hand written style automatic power drive as that spec sheet illustrates .....but the 1178 was the king and i think the 1178 was the most famous of all the dial a matics

 

[hooveru4019]

A huge thank you to my dear friend,John Gregory from Pennsylvania for the spec sheets on my beloved, near perfect Hoover self-propelled model 1178 from late in the run in 1974. Mine has the up-to-the-minute 900 W motor, giving it all the extra suction power a near-perfect upright vacuum cleaner needs. I have had it for a very long time and have never actually done much with it until recently when I retired. I have been doing All the summer cleaning with it. Every home should be a Hoover home.

tom you continue to inspire other collectors with your 1178 post they posted their 1178 which looks it was uesd 3x more than your 1178 must have belong to one of their relatives looks more like the original 1972 with lower wattage motor

 

[dysonman1]

Now that I have retired, the best of my convertible collection has come home, and I plan to make YouTube videos. Who knew you could supplement your Social Security by making money from people who watch your movies of your vacuum cleaners?

 

[burlingtonbill]

Now that I have retired, the best of my convertible collection has come home, and I plan to make YouTube videos. Who knew you could supplement your Social Security by making money from people who watch your movies of your vacuum cleaners?

I just LOVE this pic!!

 

[dysonman1]

I know John Gregory will appreciate this photo. It is of a wonderful Hoover Baby. 103. It still had the crumbs of the dry pepper cookies that broke the heavy cast aluminum fan. Not to worry. I fixed it. Now we need a light fixture to screw the original cord into.

 

[dysonman1]