dear bvac 20 .00 for a concept is well worth the price...this 200.00 plus unit which was hoovers high end from 1978 replacing the dial a matic line wss kept in production until 1992 when it was replaced by a modified concept two upright sans the helpmate and added onboard tools and renamed the powermax....just a concept underneath it all....the unit pictured is a jcpenny concept in their signatur moss green color from the late 1980s and is an awesome unit ...i myself have the very last original concept ones model u3345900 in black made for sears in 1992 given to me by then vice president bob arnold at the hoover company in 1992 as a gift for sales that year