For the last few years I have been fixing up vintage sewing machines and using them. A dream of mine was to someday own a treadle machine. Meet my new, very old, machine. It is a 1927 Singer class 66 machine and it sews beautifully. It had been standing in an entryway and had not been used in decades. All it needed was a little scrubbing, tightening, and oiling to get it purring. 
It has been much easier than I thought to get the rhythm of the treadle down and my kids love it too so this one will hopefully get a lot of use.
It is a thing of beauty to me when something is built so well that it functions almost 90 years after it was made and will, in all likely-hood, keep whirring for the next many years. I love to run fabric under this machine knowing that so many yards and yards of fabric passed this way before that it wore off the gold leafing. Scores of pins etched grooves in the arm of the machine. I can see the rich history of this piece and I know it was used almost 90 years ago, and it is used still today.
Oooooh! She’s a beauty! I love old sewing machines and have ” adopted ” more than one (or 2……well, let’s just say a few). But my Singers are my favorites. The ones built prior to the 60’s are workhorses that will dance through your fabric with a fairy godmother’s touch! A little love, a little oil (and a new belt every blue moon or so) and these darlings will sew for you just about forever. And unlike new, computerized machines, they’re not constantly breaking down and having to be sent off for outrageously expensive repairs. Lol! Aside from my serger, the youngest machine I own is a 30ish year old Bernina! I admit to a touch of envy though, as I have yet to stumble across a 1927 Singer that is in need of adoption. Congratulations on acquiring your new/old machine! May the two of you sew many beautiful things together for many years to come!