Congrats Jamie on your new acquisition! That model is the last non self-propelled Kirby. I'm sure your Hoover's will be forgiving! When you said you took it out to clean the car, it reminded me of the time when I was a kid, took our Kirby out to the driveway to clean the car out. Our driveway was a gravel driveway. I dropped the hose with it running, and it sucked up a couple of good sized pieces of gravel, and it blew a hole through the housing! Needless to say I got a good reaming for that, I think it was a rather costly repair. From then on, I was only allowed to take the GE canister outside to clean the cars!
