whats your favorite hoover upright.

[jimbeckwith]

Favorite Hoover

I have always loved the whisper-quiet model 541. It is a great machine with just the right amount of "spit and polish". By the way, it is also a Henry Dreyfuss design, his first for Hoover.

 

[sebo_fan]

All these photos make me wish I had my Hoover Senior again - I had one similar to the last photo here.

 

[raycarter]

I think I've seen that model-it was model 6525C, wasn't it? Similar to my model 70, but with a toe-pedal switch and a 4-position carpet selector.

 

[Madrat]

Hi,

New to the forum but not to the world of vacuums. There are many vacuums I like but as I collect Hoover Junior's they must be my favourite as far as far as looks go. I have a 1224, 1334 and a 1346a the last 2 are part way through a soft restore and I plan to expand the collection in the future. In terms of pure cleaning power I don't think you can beat DYSON. I have a DC04, DC05 and a DC25, all animal versions. The senior was a fantastic looking machine and the constalation was pure genius.

 

[joejoe83]

And my Hoover Convertible U4001

 

[pnluxconvlvr]

Love your U4011 joejoe.

That is a great yellow color and the hood looks almost perfect. Nice!

 

[gsheen]

4011

Love that hood shape, we never got it here in SA so it may be one of those , love what you can't have but if any one has a spare hood like that I could purchase let me know

 

[indyhoover]

My favorite Hoover upright.....

There's several that would be a close tie for first, but one standout is the beautiful 1938 Hoover Model 26....

 

[Madrat]

That is a beauty.

 

[kirbyclassiciii]

My favorite Hoover uprights:

All Convertibles from 1957 to 1990

Guardsman Convertibles

Model 913, 918 and U7037 Commercial

Conquest U7069 Commercial

Concept One Power Drive

Dial-A-Matic Power Drive

There are so many species of these in history I cannot choose just one.

~Ben

 

[compactelectra]

Hmmmm

Trying to pick a favorite Hoover upright.  So many to choose from.  Some from the 50s and 60s.

 

[compactelectra]

Some

From the 40s and 50s.

 

[compactelectra]

And

Some from the 30s and before.  You guys are stronger than me.  I sure as heck can't pick one favorite Hoover upright.

 

[compactelectra]

I Guess

The 69 is near the top.

 

[gsheen]

@Indy Hoover
Love your 26 , I have the 262 220v version , I note only slight differences in the hood design. I just love the sound it makes from the brush bar hitting thick carpet, especially if that carpet is on a wooden floor

 

[2011hoover700]

Update I recently discovered that I personally like any vintage hoover upright for completely different reasons.

 

[davidmichaelraw]

My favorite has to be the 4101. I have 3 of this model. The one I use has the one feature I always wanted on it, a headlight! I had to add it myself. Green being my favorite color, I love the retro look of the machine. Also, my Penncrest that I lucked into.

 

[thegen5gal]

My New Baby! HOOVER U4349

I go to the Post Office on Monday to pick this girl up!

 

[gottahaveahoove]

yay!

Enjoy it.

 

[kirby27]

The lonely one

My favorite, the one the only... Hoover windtunnel lite!

 

[kirby27]

I would like to expand my collection of Hoover’s as i love my purple lite model. Would love to get a blue convertible

 

[dysonman1]

My current favorite is the beautiful, very rare Hoover model 425.

 

[dysonman1]

My 425 came to me, along with the late Stan Kann's entire collection of Vacuums. There were a few that had been pilfered between the time Stan's passed away and the time the machines were placed in The Vacuum Cleaner Museum in Saint James, Missouri. Whom ever swiped Stan's most valuable machines, missed this one. With the Silver Jubilee outer bag, this was one of Stan's's pride and joy's.

 

[TheSpiritOf76]

My first choice would have to be.....

The Golden prize Convertible mode 65 from 1958. I am very pleased and esteemed to own one of the only 22,000 of this machine made! I had completely restored mine from the ground up.

My second choice is the Convertible Estate model U4103. Not too terribly rare, but one if my favorites none the less.

 

[Deleted member 1090]

for me it would be

Mine would be
The model 262 ,the 26,the 28 ,the 150, The big Commercial Conquest orange upright ,Convertibles,The DAM whit power drive orange,The Concept one whit power drive also ,Model O,Elite soft bag burgundy color,Wind tunnel green,those would be it long list

 

[s31463221]

Favorite Hoover Upright.....

Gosh! How can you choose just one?!?! I have so many that I like! My current ones I use are a lavender model 33, and the cheerful U4127! But I also love my more vintage models too!!!

 

[crazykirbydude]

This is my favorite Hoover vacuum!

 

[crazykirbydude]

In all seriousness, mine is the U4003. Mostly because it is the only Hoover upright I own!

 

[jake1234]

Hoover Senior 6525E

My favorite hoover vacuum cleaner would have to be the hoover senior 6525E. Mine is one of the last seniors ever made and is from 1976 toward the end of the senior era. I love it so much because the headlight lights up dark spaces and it has great carpet pile height adjustment as its the only cleaner I own to have a setting for REALLY thick carpet. We have had new really thick shag pile carpet in the lounge and its the only cleaner that is really easy to push on the carpet and there is even a height setting above the one that already outdoes all the other machines! Also, for some reason my mothers hair doesn't get wrapped around the brush roll like it does with all the other uprights I own.