It will be an excellent cleaner. For me, any of the Hoover self propelled machines were very jerky. Eureka and Kirby held the market with self propelled. Both were much smoother then Hoover.
I would love to find a non-self propelled Hoover Dail-A-Matic in good shape and a Concept One. Have both machines now with self propell, but don't use them.
Morgan