Not your grandmother's Blendtec blender

Will it blend?  I love my Blendtec blender. So far I have run it through almost 1,600 cycles. I used it again for my morning breakfast fruit smoothie this morning. As I eat breakfast I look at a shelf we have in the dining area that displays several antique items. This is one of those items:

Not your grandmother's Blendtec blender

Maybe grandma could not grind up a shovel handle in her blender bottle (for those of you who don't know what I am talking about you might want to visit www.willitblend.com and watch some of the Blendtec blender videos) but she could make a mean batch of whipping cream!