Nice find! Even if you wanted to clean it up and sell it on, you'd make a profit. I picked up a DC05 recently (pic below) for £12 in a local junk shop. It was missing the handle grip, the on switch and was filthy. I bought a generic replacement handle and switch - £8 for both, and some new filters for £4. Gave it a damn good cleaner, put the hose, cyclone assembly and dust bin through the dishwasher and I sold it on ebay for £63, plus postage. 

I've never got on with Dysons. I'm highly allergic to dust and emptying them would always trigger a reaction, although not half as bad as the low efficiency direct cyclones. I once emptied my sisters Vax Swift when she had and it brushed the filter down and spent the next day sneezing and with streaming eyes. I've also found carpet performance to be pretty substandard, especially compared with other cleaners in the same price range. They handle surface litter well, but deep cleaning performance is near minimal - see below link for an agitation test. 

Of the 5 Dysons that my grandparents have owned (DC01,  DC04, DC07, DC15 and DC27), the DC04, I thought, was the strongest performer and it was the machine that lasted the longest. 

For comparison, here is the Sebo x1.1 doing the same test 

That's cool that you have one now then :). Always nice finding something you've been looking for, and still good to know the option is there if you decide to sell it later 

Tayyab, my Grandma barely uses the DC27 anymore, since she had all solid wood floors put in downstairs and bought a George. The Dyson is only used upstairs for a quick clean up. It's a decent performer, but it's the loudest Dyson I've ever used - it really screams.

Michael, talking out of your butt, as usual. You can clearly see the Sebo agitating the carpet. The reason it appears to not agitate towards the end of the video is because its actually sucking  up the cat litter, as opposed to the Dyson which just spits it everywhere.  

Just for you, Michael, incase you missed it....here are some video stills for you.....

7 seconds....agitation. 

8 seconds, agitation

9 seconds, agitation 

10 seconds, agitation 

11 seconds, agitation 

12 seconds, agitation 

13 seconds, agitation 

14 seconds, CLEAN

Now, tell me Michael, how many seconds of agitation is that? A little bit more than 3 if you can count at all, to say it only took 7 seconds to clean the carpet anyway, 6 mins out of 7 worth of bouncing cat litter, I think, is pretty good going. 

Face it, Michael, the only reason you made that comment is because you don't like me and therefore refuse to acknowledge that something I like is good. 

LOL, Alex, the Turbopower would have cat litter stuck on my ceiling if I tried that test with it! 

Michael, do you want me to draw you freakin' arrows to where you can see agitation happening? And if you're going to resort to making up crap, you need to grow the hell up more than I thought

^actually, when asked what Kirbys were made out of, I asked my friend James (Kirby expert). I had no idea what they were made out of, and never pretended to. But that's besides the point. 

Oh my lord, you're actually really thick, aren't you? 

I didn't say that James said they were made of SS. When asked "what are Kirbys made of?" I asked James - he knows far more about them than I do (despite growing up with one), and he advised they were made of aluminium, which is what I then went back with. At no point did I proclaim that I knew what they were made out of. 

Now, back on topic, if you don't mind?