adiostoreador
Well-known member
Recently I was able to come across a vacuum from my childhood that I had been looking for for a long time. It was the vacuum my grandma had for most of my time growing up, a Hoover Preferred Elite! It’s not the exact model as I remember her’s having a non-stretch hose that went over top the body while this one has a side mounted stretch hose. Other than that it’s all exactly the same. Overall the thing is in damn near in perfect condition! I genuinely think this had an easy life, It does need a new motor mount and I have one on the way but I attribute that breaking just do to the aging of the plastic. I was also wondering if anybody had as picture of the inside these fully assembled with the cover off just because I want to make sure everything else in there is good to go. Also can anybody give a little more insight into the machine? I know the Elite series of uprights had a long successful run, but I can’t really find to much about this model. From what I can gather it’s no different than any other Elite hardbag other than Hoover slapped another name on it to have another machine to sell. I’m assuming here this is a mid range model as it does have a stretch hose and headlight which is definitely a step up from the base machine, while the TOL model had the already attached and ready to go hose. But I could be wrong here as Hoover seems to have made every possible combination of Elite parts into every possible configuration and the names are kinda all over with different stores having different models line ups of Elites.

