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Post# 288121   7/10/2014 at 19:38 (3,548 days old) by marks_here (_._)        

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And look what they did to her.. They took her identity and memory...poor thing she has no idea who she is... LOL!!'

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Post# 288132 , Reply# 1   7/10/2014 at 20:32 (3,548 days old) by s31463221 (Frenchburg, KY)        
Now that's.......

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What I call a FrankenKirby!!

Post# 288134 , Reply# 2   7/10/2014 at 20:35 (3,548 days old) by kevin (Livonia)        

LOL, Mark David! Is that painted blue, or do my eyes deceive me?

Is it yours?


Post# 288138 , Reply# 3   7/10/2014 at 20:45 (3,548 days old) by marks_here (_._)        
Yes that is blue...

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She's been sick! The aliens must have had her vacuum up something that didn't agree with her. Me paint her, no I would never do that unless it matched the origianal colour. I found that on Ebay. LOL



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Post# 288142 , Reply# 4   7/10/2014 at 21:12 (3,548 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)        

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Yeah, I saw that too. You have to wonder if vac shops or Kirby dealerships have any aesthetic sense at all. You'd think they would at least TRY to install matching colors of trim, wheels, etc. on machines; instead, it seems they go out of their way to deliberately mismatch stuff. Maybe it's a subtle ploy of trying to get the customer to get a shiny-new color-matched machine instead of having to use an ugly, mismatched mongrel.



Post# 288147 , Reply# 5   7/10/2014 at 22:51 (3,548 days old) by Gr8DaneDad ()        

tbat is exactly why they do it.. make it as ugly as possible to hopefully generate a sale of a brand spanking new machine.


Post# 288153 , Reply# 6   7/10/2014 at 23:55 (3,548 days old) by vintagevaclover (Athens, GA)        

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I saw that on eBay a while back. Why would somebody paint aluminum?

Post# 288179 , Reply# 7   7/11/2014 at 09:26 (3,548 days old) by rugsucker (Elizabethton TN)        
"Why would somebody paint aluminum?"

Royal did on some lower priced standard models into the 90s that were blue or gray.As to why I have wondered if these used up housings with a blemish that might not polish out or was just faster and cheaper??

Post# 288181 , Reply# 8   7/11/2014 at 09:44 (3,548 days old) by DesertTortoise ()        

Worse horrors are visited on otherwise perfectly good cars and motorcycles, lowering them to the point where they bounce down the freeway, putting gargantuan polished rims on them, wheel spacers so the wheel sticks out past the fender (must not drive in rain), loud sewer pipe exhausts, chain steering wheels, rubber bulls testicles danging from the trailer hitch, etc. I'm pretty certain these people also have vacuums somewhere at home.

Post# 288188 , Reply# 9   7/11/2014 at 10:05 (3,548 days old) by Gr8DaneDad ()        

DT,

 

We may not agree on everything, but we sure as heck do on all of the above. Your post made me smile broadly and I appreciate that very much!

 

Tom


Post# 288398 , Reply# 10   7/12/2014 at 13:29 (3,547 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)        
I can't agree more!

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I hate seeing old, classic cars become pimp-mobiles! I love seeing them go down the road in their chromed-out glory, though!



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