What is your favorite vintage vacuum and your least favorite vacuum?

[sries]

My favorite vintage vacuum would have to be the hoover convertible because they are so practical and so reliable and so attractive that if I see one on eBay or one at a garage sale or thrift store I can't pass it up if the price is right. My least favorite vintage vacuum would have to be kirbys. I like kirbys but they are so heavy and clunky that I can only use them in certain rooms. The thing I like about kirbys is all the weird and goofy attachments that everyone bought but rarely used. A lot of people used the floor scrubbing attachment and the buffing attachment but people didn't use the sanding attachment a lot or the drilling attachment. Some of the attachments they came with where a bit tacky but that's just my opinion. I'd like to hear your favorites and least favorites.

 

[kenkart]

just to grab and use..

A Model G Electrolux, my least favorite to use, A Rainbow, too messy, but as strictly collectables, a 150 Hoover, a Apex Strato Cleaner,the 50s-60s Kenmores,All Lewyts,Filtexes, GE canisters.any Constellation or Hoover tank .I dont collect and reall do not like much of anything after about 1980...most of my vacuums are 50s and 60s with a very few later models., and the majority are tanks and canisters,,they outnumber the uprights 4 or 5 to one, I havent counted in several years, but I think I have over 200 vacs now.

 

[dysonman1]

My favorites would be Rexair, Compact, and Electrolux. All before 1960. Uprights would be pre world war 2 Hoover. My least favorite of all time would be anything made by Kirby. I can't stand that machine.

 

[firebirdman55]

Most favorite...Kirby, Eureka, and Hoover. Great machines and such fun to use!

My least favorite...Dyson and Oreck. I also do NOT like canisters or tanks. I only collect uprights.

 

[suckolux]

This would be like picking your favorite child! Hmm, Silverado or XXX

 

[kirbyg6]

My favourite kirby my least favourite Dyson because we had a dco7 full gear and we had to replace a lot of parts on it

 

[suckolux]

weird my dc18 has never broken anything in 6 years

 

[bt]

I love the original Hoover Dial A Matic. It's a beautiful incarnation of 1960's industrial design.

 

[sptyks]

My favorite vintage vacuum would have to be the Kirby DS50. It is such an elegantly designed machine, so powerfull and lightweight at only 11 pounds. It is only half the weight of the new G series Kirbys.


 


My least favorite vacuum is anything made by Dyson. They are such overpriced pieces of plastic that breakdown often, are noisy, loud and have only mediocre performance.

 

[compactc9guy]

MY favorite are

Compact Electra C9 vacuum shes my daily driver because my grandma had one like it so i grew up whit one now i'm 24 and i have my own . My second favorite would be my newly acquired Electrolux Model ZB 86 and my lux discovery 2 .I collect and use any thing from 1960 to 1990 why 90 the year i was born .Also a Hoover Celebrity iv elite my childhood vacuum that my mom had .Now vacuums that i hate lets see here , Dyson just to much parts and to bulky for my taste . If i want a bag less machine ill pick a rainbow or filter queen why ? powerful quiet reliable . So to sum it all up COMPACT ELECTROLUX HOOVER AND KENMORE .

 

[bagintheback]

During the time I owned an Electrolux Model G, it was fantastic. No portable vacuum I've heard of was that quiet(no pun intended). I could clean our hard floors under cathedral ceilings and not be overwhelmed by noise, nor was anyone else in the house. It had just enough suction, wasn't too heavy, and maneuvered well. I really think the Model G was the acme of the Electrolux company, if not the vacuum industry as a whole. Additionally, I'll take any Convertible any day. 


 


I am not a big fan of the Dial-a-Matics. As much as I love Hoover, I find them too clunky and I'm not a big fan of the way the motor sounds. I always found the traditional Hoover beater bar brush roll to be very inefficient with the bypass motor design; there simply is not enough airflow. The Concepts were a huge improvement in my opinion, but Panasonic did an excellent job improving upon the DAM design.  

 

[dys0nb0y]

I favourite vintage brand is Hoover And my least favourite of all time is Kirby and i don't like hoover UK[this post was last edited: 10/6/2014-20:30]

 

[cb123]

Well, my bestest, bestest, most favorite vacuum of all time is...is, now let me think about it for a minute. It's coming, it's coming, I almost have it! WHY,  IT'S A KIRBY...YEAH!!! There are so many cheap plastic explosive vacs, I really don't even know where to begin with my least favorite one, on account, that they are all so equally crappy. But I can tell you this with an undying certainty, that I would rather unclog the filthiest of sinks than to lay a finger upon one of those abomination's!  Check this link out and you'll know what I mean.

  


 


If you look really hard, you just might see a Dyson is the culprit...enjoy!

 

[sries]

I generally can't stand

Most new vacuums except for sanitare, Kirby, melie, and others similar to that. I was talking about more vintage vacuums but some new ones are okay too. My least favorite NEW vacuum would be the dyson. The one that my grand parents had started smoking a week after they got it serviced. It was only 3 years old.

 

[caligula]

My all-time favorite.

This was the very machine that started my interest. I was only 2 years old when I saw it eject.

In 1986, the husband of the lady who owned it had it shipped to me. She left it to me in her will, and I never knew it, till I got the letter with the machine. By the way, this was bought only three weeks after the model was introduced in 1952.

As the Belden plug was replaced, I removed the cordwinder, and was using the one shown here till I could replace the Belden plug.

Yes, this is my daily driver!!!

 

[cb123]

I too must confess, that is my most favorite Electrolux! It almost looks like it should have vacuum tubes in it, not even to mention, that Art Deco feel it has. If I was only allowed one canister in my collection, that would be it! 

 

[cb123]

sries,

so just how many packs of cigarettes was the Dyson up to a day!?

 Your truly blessed that it didn't raise your grandparent's home to the ground, and subsequently, cause a conflagration which would've most surely consumed the whole city, and left tens of thousands homeless...sifting through the ashes!

 


 


Thank you Mr. Dyson for your superior quality...NOT!!! 

 

[tolivac]

Favorites-Kirbys,Metal Royal uprights,Tacony Tandem Air machines.NSS M1 "Canister" machines.Compact-TriStar canisters and their clones.
Least favorites--ANY MODERN bagless vacuums.Dysons,Dirty,clacky,clunky things.They creak and flex as you push them.Parts fall off.Rainbows are better than Dyson-but just too messy to use.But the Rainbow sales pitch is correct-if you empty the water bin outside as I do when I use one of my Rainbows-you are getting the dirt out of your home!

 

[hoover51]

FAVORITE AND LEAST FAVORITE VACUUM CLEANER

MY FAVORITE VACUUM WOULD HAVE TO BE THE HOOVER AERODYNE MODELS 50-51. MY LEAST FAVORITE WOULD BE FILTER QUEEN AND ROYAL.

MIKE