programcomputer
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Your best bet for excellent vac stuff is Hooverland.....
Hi,
Just to buttinsky my few cents here a great vac site is the Hooverland one started by Jeff Parker (hoover1060)- as you can see his collection is uncomparable to many and there is maybe one or two others that I have head of that can top what he has.
And awwwwww I love that pic of the Penncrest.
There's a story to this y'all...so hold on cause I wanna tell it.
That was a machine that came about all too suddenly after many years of Jeff and I talking about the "evasive" Hoover Cord-Reel Convertible model 704-01 in Persion Gold and Seal Greige light and medium. He and I used to talk about it and how I remeber from VERY early childhood that a neighbor lady next to my grandparents house, had one of these machines...but it was a deep blue color like the Hoover model 70. It had the rounded hood like you see on that Penncrest, but with a square not round Cordreel like th Penncrest features.
After many years I came about a Penny's catalog from 1966 that I sent with the Penncrest when I "finally" sent it to Jeff after promising it to him for MONTHS, that featured the cleaner that you see. I then knew that I wasn't insane nor was Jeff...and that if it was sold as a Penncrest cleaner, there had to be one or two floating around out there.
A few months after obtaining that catalog I was cruising the internet while managing the store at Hoover. I flipped onto Flea-Bay and there it was...the Penncrest Deluxe Cord-Reel Convertible in all it's glory. Becasue I was making a substantial amount of cash I bidded up that thing until I was about the cost of a months car payment hic for me was $239.80 at that time...which was excessive but it was a gottohave item.
Of course I won it, and it was sent to my house. Where I cleaned it and besically gave it a good once over.
It's just a standard Hoover Convertible I know...but I wanted to play with it for awhile, yet promised it to Jeff...but it had the cord reel and that was enought to make me whorde it for awhile. Then reality hit me like a brick and knew it had to go to it's rightful owner Jeff....who by the way has given me a number of my current vacuum cleaners in my collection...and therefore he deserved it more than me.
Besides as long as he breathes I know that nothing will ever happen to it...and in that I take comfort. One of my most prized that he has given me is the Eureka Cordaway Powertouch Upright, two beautiful Singer's, and to top it all off which is my collection crown jewel...becasue I'm ALMOST sure no one else has one...is my TOL Westinghouse Converto-Vac...from 1966.
Anyway, I have still never seen the Hoover badged version with the sqare reel, yet have seen the non cord reel version the model 704.
And to make a point finally...I realized later that the machine that I remember from early Childhood must have also been a Penncrest also. Reason being that in 1968 they offered the same convertible featured aboue but with the 1060 hood and headlight rather than the earlier model 65 hood and lens. Also that machine was offered in dark blue with white accroding to the Sprign-Summer Catalog I just acquired. In 1969 the last time that this machine was offered it went to a softer baby blue and white.
Anyway what your looking at from his picture above is a VERy reare and special machine to he and I and that if your persistent enought you will find it even if it seem as elusive as ever....
Chad
Hi,
Just to buttinsky my few cents here a great vac site is the Hooverland one started by Jeff Parker (hoover1060)- as you can see his collection is uncomparable to many and there is maybe one or two others that I have head of that can top what he has.
And awwwwww I love that pic of the Penncrest.
There's a story to this y'all...so hold on cause I wanna tell it.
That was a machine that came about all too suddenly after many years of Jeff and I talking about the "evasive" Hoover Cord-Reel Convertible model 704-01 in Persion Gold and Seal Greige light and medium. He and I used to talk about it and how I remeber from VERY early childhood that a neighbor lady next to my grandparents house, had one of these machines...but it was a deep blue color like the Hoover model 70. It had the rounded hood like you see on that Penncrest, but with a square not round Cordreel like th Penncrest features.
After many years I came about a Penny's catalog from 1966 that I sent with the Penncrest when I "finally" sent it to Jeff after promising it to him for MONTHS, that featured the cleaner that you see. I then knew that I wasn't insane nor was Jeff...and that if it was sold as a Penncrest cleaner, there had to be one or two floating around out there.
A few months after obtaining that catalog I was cruising the internet while managing the store at Hoover. I flipped onto Flea-Bay and there it was...the Penncrest Deluxe Cord-Reel Convertible in all it's glory. Becasue I was making a substantial amount of cash I bidded up that thing until I was about the cost of a months car payment hic for me was $239.80 at that time...which was excessive but it was a gottohave item.
Of course I won it, and it was sent to my house. Where I cleaned it and besically gave it a good once over.
It's just a standard Hoover Convertible I know...but I wanted to play with it for awhile, yet promised it to Jeff...but it had the cord reel and that was enought to make me whorde it for awhile. Then reality hit me like a brick and knew it had to go to it's rightful owner Jeff....who by the way has given me a number of my current vacuum cleaners in my collection...and therefore he deserved it more than me.
Besides as long as he breathes I know that nothing will ever happen to it...and in that I take comfort. One of my most prized that he has given me is the Eureka Cordaway Powertouch Upright, two beautiful Singer's, and to top it all off which is my collection crown jewel...becasue I'm ALMOST sure no one else has one...is my TOL Westinghouse Converto-Vac...from 1966.
Anyway, I have still never seen the Hoover badged version with the sqare reel, yet have seen the non cord reel version the model 704.
And to make a point finally...I realized later that the machine that I remember from early Childhood must have also been a Penncrest also. Reason being that in 1968 they offered the same convertible featured aboue but with the 1060 hood and headlight rather than the earlier model 65 hood and lens. Also that machine was offered in dark blue with white accroding to the Sprign-Summer Catalog I just acquired. In 1969 the last time that this machine was offered it went to a softer baby blue and white.
Anyway what your looking at from his picture above is a VERy reare and special machine to he and I and that if your persistent enought you will find it even if it seem as elusive as ever....
Chad
