Funny thing about finding a Featherweight, I held out for a very long time wanting to find one at a garage sale for $25 like several of my other friends did. Never did find one like that - unfortunately. Then I went on this site:
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/sewing/singer
and bought one on EBay for $225 (including the shipping cost). A few years later, I bought my next one at an estate sale for $95; and the next two I bought from the same lady who was "just tired of having so many sewing machines," for $50 each.
To me, the moral of the story is that once you have one, the others just follow as easy as pie. I don't know why that is. I gave one of them to my friend and I still have 3. One I keep in my car at all times to take to classes and to the senior center where I sew on Tuesdays. One I use at home and the other one is my spare.
I am not planning on selling any of them, I just love them so much. Their stitch is perfect, I can clean and service them myself (for the most part) and just one more strange thing, when I am sitting in front of them and sewing, I don't feel like I have a big behemoth in front of my face. I know that sounds strange, but the Featherweight just seems so dainty.
Yes, I am in love.