Upright Panasonic Jet-Flo

[funvacfan]

Picked up a model MC-663 today at Value Village. It has three neat push buttons on the front for low, medium, and high.

I'm guessing it's from the 80's...?

Guy

 

[bobbyderegis]

Guy, what color is it? I have one from the 80's that is tan, but I've seen blue ones, too. I don't know the model #'s, but I think the blue ones came later.
Bobby

 

[petek]

I've never seen a Panasonic with 3 buttons across the top which gets me to wondering if it isn't an early model fashioned after the Kenmore Duo-Power upright which had 3 buttons across the top. They were made by Matsushita (panasonic) and came in blue and green

 

[ian88]

We'll have to see some pictures ;]

very detailed ones

 

[hoover1060]

early

I just picked one up too, MC661, looks very Dial-a-Matic like

 

[petek]

can you post a pic Jeff

 

[hoover1060]

maybe...

I think I have one, camera is in the shop, so if I don't have any yet it will have to wait.

 

[andy]

I have an aunt in Florida who had one of the real small Panasonic uprights when I was a kid. I remember it being extremely quiet, and I'd always use it when I went to her house. One of my suppliers introduced this upright a couple of years ago, supposedly saying it was taken from the molds of that machine. It's definitely not the same though; I sold one, and four months later it came back with a melted brushroll. I yanked it off the showroom as fast as I could.

 

[hoover1060]

ummmm Andy...

Do ya see my PANASONIC NOW??? {{{GRIN}}}

 

[petek]

I have the small Jet Flo Dual Purpose, it has the brushroll on/off switch and a switch for the full bag alert. The power switch is on the handle. I have another small one without the brushroll switch or the bag alert switch and the power switch is on top of the body casing.

 

[swingette]

?

 

[hoover1060]

there ya go

David posted my Panasonic, well actually not mine, its been claimed by the person who wanted it

 

[swingette]

i saw a push button speed control Panasonic just a couple days ago, but the agi and bottom plate were missing and the agitator endcaps had chewed the casting.

btw, heres some pics of a Jet Flo i picked up a few weeks ago...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10202581@N03/sets/72157602007398521/detail/