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For the manufacture date look at the serial number and first 4 digits will be the date. MMYY. I want to say those were built until ~2005. That’s a 12amp machine so definitely near the end of the Hoover Elite era. Definitely one of the more unique variants, and one of the few that used the “Z”...

Just did a closer read of the thread and saw @electromatik's link. So Shark is the market leader! Didn't see that before. Thanks for that info!

At this point in time I would say the Shark Navigator line. They're sold at basically every retailer and have been for probably a decade now. It seems like every other non-collector (so most people lol) I've met owns one. It's also hard to go to any Goodwill around here and not see one for sale...

I'd love to see a long-term review of this. The Hoover Celebrity bag setup is interesting. I haven't used a Celebrity in a while but I remember the dust likes to clump up near the front fold of the bag and not so evenly across all three. Numatic and others don't use those bags in their...

I bought one a few months ago and it's a good deal for the money. In a place like mine that's 100% bare floors with a few area rugs, it gets the job done. The cord is the perfect length. I will say Hoover makes probably the worst bare floor tool in the game, and the PortaPower still has Hoover's...

Old Thread! I haven't thought of this subject in a long time, but it reminds me of something I saw recently. During this summer my family and I were in Kona, Hawaii, and right outside the airport TSA checkpoint was a Hoover Elite 200! In the wild! In 2021! Surprising good shape for something...

Impressive! Especially for a cordless vacuum. $40 is very steep for bags but they do last a while. I used to get about 3 months out of CC bags when I used an Oreck full time, and only had to buy a new pack once a year or so. Does the ONEPWR use the same motor as the XL21-series? From the few...

I love it the way it is. There's a charm to it. The only real problem for a while was you could only post one picture at a time, but the "new" 20 photo in-message album works perfectly. Plus....it is very very easy to search for old threads in Google. If you search with a keyword and then...

@oreck_xl is spot on about the fan cases of the early 2000s. My Oreck from 2003 had a defective fan case that I had to replace after about 3 years. So maybe mine had an old 2002 case lol. And to be honest, I've repaired and resold a ton of Orecks from the 90s and late 2000s and none have had a...

P.S Oh, and if you don't mind, I would love to see some pictures of what you have. The inlets would be fun to see. I'm sure other collectors would also be interested. 

I put together a little research on this thread: https://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?42456__0#start_42456.446847 I couldn't find much regarding Atwood, but there is a good amount of material on older threads on Vacuumland about their contempoaries.

I don't have any leads on a hose, but I wanted to bump this thread up just in case someone might. I included some links that I've bookmarked over the years about older central vacs, if you're interested. After years of being on this site and activity reading about antique central vacs, here's...

This is like an old-school Lux model, but if you want the classic design definitely look into the Perfect C-130 canister. You'll save a few hundred dollars and from what I've heard the suction motor might be a little stronger than the Aerus "Classic" model. I've used a few Perfect models are...

I've never seen a Filter Queen in person, nor do I know any non-collector that has owned one. I've met people, who have bought new from dealers, Kirby, Aerus, and Rainbow, but never Filter Queen. I'm surprised they're even still in business. At the same time they're an important legacy brand so...

lol me and huskyvacs must of been typing at the same time. I guess we both have the same theory!

This is definitely one of the stranger phenomenons in the resale world recently. It is not rare to see Hoover Elites, Eureka Bravos, and others of their contemporaries sell in the $100 range. Even just a few years ago these were considered pretty much junk unless it was a really early model in...

Just found this on eBay with only 20 hours left. It looks like a road sign that pointed towards a local dealer. Absolutely huge. This should definitely be in the hands of a collector https://www.ebay.com/itm/203609731195?hash=item2f6815f07b:g:KqkAAOSwgwNhRO~P

@hoover300 Do you have a picture of this first Bissell? Only 1 left in existence is crazy! I've never heard of it.

Isn't it crazy how these now fit in the "vintage" territory? I definitely understand what you mean by the "Japanese feeling". The Panasonic and Sharps from this time were so smooth. The motors and wheels were quiet and even though they didn't cost much it felt high quality. Tacony machines...

I'm not sure if he is a member here but Owen Perkins on YouTube would be someone to reach out to. He's has at least one other TUEC and an expert on central vacs. You're definitely not the first story I've heard of someone cleaning out their "turn-of-the-century" home with one of these...