Infectious

[maytagbear]

As for "what would it cost now,"

there's a useful page on the internet- westegg.com/inflation. Nice little inflation calculator. However, you might be shocked if you try it out. Link included.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

http://westegg.com/inflation

 

[maytagbear]

Another handy money page

is the currency converter (US dollars to Euros or Euros to dollars-- whatever...... xe.com/ucc (Universal Currency Converter.) Link also added.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

http://xe.com/ucc

 

[ovrphil]

Got it!

For the 1981 Celebrity II Elite that I have, missing the attachments though, the cost was $124 then in 1981 translates to a whopping $310 in today's bama dollars.

I don't know when the Concept II was introduced or its price for my year, but I'm guessing about $1K or more in today's dollars.

Thanks Lawrence.

Phil

 

[ovrphil]

Warings - new but how old?

It's funny, Drewz (Joe) asked "what no Warings?" and just a couple weeks ago or more, I found a Futura and today, a Nova II Series...both look BOL. I was trying to find a date of manufacture. The green Waring is probably older than the yellow one, which has all kinds of Cautions on theremovable lid, underneath, and on the mantle(as I call it) where the glass container sits.

The label is missing for the yellow blender - someone likes to eat labels, I guess- anyone have one of these and can tell me its model number and age?

The green machine is Model 11-156, and I am guessing it's mid-70's(y/n?) - so if anyone has one like it or knows, I'd appreciate your opinions.

Warings crank, don't they? That cloverleaf design moves the liquids up and down...(?).

These are beauties:

 

[petek]

Phil,, the Futura models were iirc from the 70's followed by the Futura II not much later and then by the Nova series.. Each new series becoming more plasticky than the ones they replaced imo. Some of the ones they put out in the 90's, after the Nova II series were incredibly cheap and flimsy you think they'd be embarrassed to put the Waring name on them. Then they did an about face and started making better quality machines again as now. At least I haven't seen any of their cheap junk on the shelves for awhile.

 

[ovrphil]

Thanks Petek - I won't be buying anymore plastic models, but I don't mind if the colors are nice. The green is kind of funky looking, but the yellow is nice. I think they made those plates that surround the buttons VERY poorly, where it scratches easily and the framed trim color is easily chipped or faded. But I like the vortextual (my own word) action.