Your one favorite Kirby OF ALL TIME

[MikeKLondon]

```````````````````Tradition

I love the look of the tradition.

 

[watsonw]

Perivale built.......

Hoover 450/475

Lightweight but not light, just the correct agitator size which combined with the dust bag capacity and height adjuster its the machine of all hoovers that
makes best use of its motor power/speed.

 

[Sablekid]

yes, that was an excellent Kirby model

 

[sanitaire]

both of my sanitronics. one is all orgional except I had too weld a hole on the fan case and the other came with a after market kirby dimond cloth bag with paper liner, new brush

 

[briankirbyclass]

Kirby slogans written in the instruction manual and on the boxes during the Classic 1CR, Omega, and Classic 3


"The Amazingly New Kirby Classic Omega. Built to put more leasure time into your modern life!"

"Kirby Classic Omega, Plus Benefits. No other appliance is as versatile, or provides so many benefits."

Kirby Classic 3
Quality
Reliability
Performance

Kirby Classic
"More Leasure Time For You"!

 

[fanonthefloor]

G4 which is my aunts vav.

 

[broomvac]

To spice things up a little...

What is the Kirby that has the best:

Performance?

Looks?

 

[uprightman]

Generation 4 - LOVE that vacuum!

I'd have to say it is the FIRST one - the one I bought NEW (for around $700.00 when it first came out) - the G4. LOVED that machine! Lent it out to an older aunt of mine since the TECH DRIVE feature made it easier to use than her Kirby Legend II. But, as things happen, her daughter saw it and claimed it - so, I'll never see that one again.

Of course DISPOSABLE bags are a PLUS, yet, I'm REALLY loving a Kirby 514 (from 1954) that a co-worker gave me. (It cleaned and polished up a TREAT!) The nozzle width isn't as wide as the newer models, and that has actually been a plus. Down side is having to dump the bag onto newspaper (and rubbing the sides of the bag together to get the BIG chunks to rattle down); coupled with the fact that the hose has air loss, and IF I use the hose, little fibers that look like pubic hair are found in the emptor. So, don't use the attachments. Instead, I rely on the Electrolux AE for above floor stuff. (Although, DO wish that Electrolux had made a curved tube. Would be SO helpful for up high shelves and ceiling fan blades and the like.)

By the way, here's what I like about the older Kirby's - the floor buffing pad. It's like dust mopping and vacuuming at the same time. Neither the hard floor tool (with brushes) on the G4 OR the floor brush attachment on the Electrolux quite to the same job.

All the same, IF I could turn back time, would NOT have given the LUSH G4 away!

 

[uprightman]

MANLY, yes, BUT I like it, too..

Forgot to mention this -- BUT, the pre-cursor to Kirby's ODORIFIC was a product called SWEET-AIRE. Have no clue what the original scent might have been - BUT - the Kirby 514 came with a glass bottle with two, maybe three drops left of the CEDAR PINE scent. I don't want to use it in the Kirby because I am AFEARED that these may be the LAST DROPS left in the WORLD! So, like a sorry freak, I just sniff the bottle when needed.

It makes me feel as if I am a lumber-jack, in a GAWJUSS flannel shirt with muscles ripplin' ALL over, in a knotty-pined Den. It is a FRIGGIN' manly-vacuum cleaner-collector's yearning to smell like that. YES, that fragrance fairly much defines me.

 

[tolivac]

When I use any of my dump bag Krbys-don't do the newspaper bit-just too messy.I take the Sani-emptor off the fan discharge and just dump it in the trash.Easier and less messy-gets the stuff out of the house.

 

[Sablekid]

I would say anything before the Classic.


 


Smaller, more efficient.

 

[thevacuumguy96]

Upright man, I have two bottles of Sweet-Aire, one is Empty and one is half full and I have the boxes for them too.

 

[lunchboxsean]

I found a vacuum shop a few months ago a Kirby Prototype. It has a Heritage 2 cloth bag, with a transparent G series mini-emptor. It has a Heritage 2 power head and brush roll, but a G series like main body and it is self propelled, but kinda quirky like a G3. There are no stickers of any kind on it at all, in fact the only thing that says Kirby is the bag. On the bottom of it are an hour meter and another meter that measure how many passes you make. There is no light at all and no hood either, but a molded plastic piece that clips in the whole where the hood would be. I got it at a vacuum shop I frequent where a lady had traded it in with another just like it. She said she pulled them out of a dumpster behind the Kirby Factory in the late 80's and traded in both of them for a Simplicity 7 series.
I had to put new wheels on it and adjust the Tech-Drive, but it works and cleans as good as any Generation.
When I was a kid, there was this cartoon show called Prometheus and Bob. Prometheus was an alien who repeatedly tried, to no avail, to teach Bob, a human, how to do various things. Since it is so strange in comparison to other Kirbys, I have named it Prometheus and it is my single favorite Kirby.

 

[brandon_w_t]

YOU MUST POST PICTURES!!!!! WOW!!!!!!!!

 

[kirbyds80]

My favorites are

Classic,
Dual Sanitronic 80
Classic III
Heritage II
Tradition
Modern,
G4
G5
Ultimate G

 

[broomvac]

.........

Yes! Pictures! That sounds awesome!

 

[vac_whisperer]

POST PICTURES NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Oh yeah, I used to watch that show, too.

 

[thermokid]

My Favorite Kirby and Daily Driver is a model 561 with all the attachments, Floor polisher and Handi-Butler Still runs and picks up perfectly after all these years.. Dan

 

[thissucks]

after owning a G3 for a period of time i would say that is my favorite G series, the Omega is my favorite vintage series and i do enjoy my 505 but i avoid using it on a daily basis due to it's age, OE fan and impossible to find switch.

in my opinion, i think the G3 has the best propelled feel, i dont have any issue with gittering or harsh shifting, if you point in the direction you want and supply steady pressure it runs nice and smooth, it runs faster and with more force than any of the other series making it truly self propelled. the bag, emptor, belt lifter seem alot better made to me than any other series, in turn it also seems the heaviest. i also like the "prototype" white its in and it's square headlamp.

i am upgrading the roller brush with a stiff sentria one and attempting to run a LED in it.

 

[tazcatsdad]

My favorites are ...

<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">... the 511 (because it was the first vacuum cleaner I ever encountered!), the Tradition, and the two which I have in my collection -- the G5 and Ultimate G.</span>

 

[broomvac]

G3 Transmission

I find it to be a bit like driving a car with a higher gear ratio, for it just seems to self-propel and "accelerate" better!