CarrieAnne

I bought one at a yard sale for 3.00! I love it, works great. Its probaly from the early 80s.

bjchad

My mother bought a Necchi in the mid 60's and made all her and my clothes for years, no decades, on it. It still runs. Great machine!

milp04

Hi,

I have a Necchi that my parents bought for me in the 60's. Can't remember the exact year, sorry. It is in a cabinet, has all the cams. I like it a lot and plan on keeping it.

I bought a newer computerized portable machine that I could take to quilt meetings and classes. It is a Euro Pro. I got it on sale at half price with a payment plan and really like all the bells and whistles that it has.

They are very well built machines and will last a long time as the inside parts are made with metal which is why they are so heavy. The newer lighter machines are made of plastic which has the potential for wearing out and breaking after a period of time.

You made a good find and a wise purchase.

Pam

AliKat

I have my old Necchi. It seems to be all metal. It is still a workhorse. I made clothes for us on it and it has a maximum power level for doing upholstery. I still use it for heavy upholstery work. It has moved quite a fair bit and is like new.

You got a good deal.

ali

blondeslave

That's what we used in our home ec class in high school a million years ago.

Stitchnripper

I have a friend with a Necchi about that age and she loves it.

cabbagepatchkid

Congratulations on your find. Is this your first vintage machine? If you are interested there is a Necchi Yahoo group. You will be able to learn lots of info from the members.

Plain Jane

It is my first vintage machine! That would be great, I have to figure out how to use it and I'm sure I need lots of info.
My mom died on March 2. Though she never quilted, she made beautiful clothing on her old Singer. I told my dad NOT to get rid of it. I think she got it back in the late forties or early fifties. I don't know how I'll get it here from Texas, but I'll manage somehow. It's amazing what she did with just a straight stitch. I miss her every day.

grugirl

Necchi's Rock. They are Italian Made I believe and my mother swears they are one of the best machines she has ever used. I have a Necchi story.

Found a Necchi on CL. There was a phone so I called. Left two messages over 2 days, no response. Hmmm. I was bummed. It said it was a brand new Necchi never used for only $150.00 and was 10 years old.

A gal calls me the third day and says I have been leaving messages on her machine about a sewing machine I want to buy, but she doesn't have one for sale. Hmmm...

So, I decided to email the person that posted it cause apparently they had mistyped their phone number for contact.

I email and the phone rings that night.

It is an 80 year old man that still has the machine. Mind you in the meantime I had done my homework and found many of this brand and model number online are 899-1000 buckeroos.

I asked him where he got it and why it was never used.

"I bought it for my wife about 10 years ago in Arizona. A new college was opening and when some of their funding got cut, the sewing program got cut. But they already bought the machines and decided to sell them brand new, never opened in the box for 1/2 price."

He said the original price was somewhere around $900. He bought it for $450. His wife never knew how to sew and they kept saying they would send her a video and never did so she never learned to sew on it. It sat in the box in a closet for 10 years. I told him I wanted to buy it.

I drove the next day, picked it up and it was so brand new, that the little piece of paper that they put under the foot when they ship was still there. The bag of tools that was sealed when a machine arrives had never been opened. It was in its original box, all the tools, in perfect condition. Needed a good oiling and I was off.

So, I got a $900 Necchi for $150 bucks brand new. It sews like a DREAM.

quiltmaker

Hope this helps:

http://www.necchisewingmachines.org/...-machines.html

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,890021,00.html

Some of those vintage Necchi sewing machines were considered the Maytags of the sewing world!