those early dirt devils are hard to find here to....i remember them from my childhood before royal really killed the name and the really junky DD's were produced in the late 90's....those delux and the direct air upright plus were not bad machines. and also those machine are pushing 15 years .....not to long and they'll be vintage to.....and i never thought that day would come....but time does move on....and think, when the dirt devils were new those 15 years ago....the late 80's and mid 80's hoover were just getting to be vintage.....and ive heard that some of the original VCCC member were having a fit cause plastic based convertibles and concepts, and decade 80s and such things were not vintage, much like some of yall on this subject.....but that day cam for them...and it will for us young people who grew up in the early 90's....