Quilt Addict said "but realize that I need to come up with one or I will buy everything."
That is my point here exactly. I want them all, or at least one of each. But I nether have the room or the money to have every sewing machine I find on Ebay or Craigslist. I have already bought a multitude of working modern sewing machines at yardsales. I buy them and then give them away if they are not what I really want. So I have machines to sew on. But I just love the look and history of the old sewing machines and would enjoy sewing on them most of the time.
Yesterday I won a 301 and am so excited about that. I think she will be great to sew on, and I hear they are great machines.
I guess I need to talk my husband into building a studio/warehouse/museum out back to keep all the fun stuff I want to have. Hmmm, I wonder if he would go for that?