Not even if
a typo was made and he was born in '76. That would have been 1981, and no plastic or upright bagless vac's were even made yet then. Not in North America.
Maybe a shop vac was plastic.
Eureka and Hoover used steel until the mid 80's. Kenmore's were plastic, but not bagless. Bissel only made electric broom style vac's then.