I've still been on the search for my all Avocado appliances. As common as this color is (or was) you'd think they would be quite plentiful still. I don't run into them much on Chicago craigslist when it comes to finding this color. Granted, they are all 30+ years old now and it's also been a long wait trying to find units that are reasonably clean and in good shape.
I picked up this November-1977 GE electric range at an estate sale this weekend (same house that the '71 Maytags came from, posted in the Imperial forum). This range here is pretty clean. It came with the manuals and the broiler pan which appears unused down in the drawer and a handful of service repair receipts from 1978. I don't think the oven part ever got used, the cook top shows some usage on the elements and a slight amount of oily haze on and behind the control glass. I didn't get a chance to test it, but I did hook up one of the legs to 120V to see if the clock and lights work. The clock seems to be toast unfortunately. I'm going to take it apart and see whats going on. I don't know if the motor burns out on these, or if they get seized due to dried out/tacky oil.
I'm not surprised though as these seem to be the weak point on all of these old ranges. I saw a website for generaltimerepairs.com out in Iowa, maybe you guys have dealt with them before. They seem like a good resource for the old mechanical timer/clocks should I need a replacement.
Otherwise, this range is perhaps a little newer than I initially wanted, but it's still a nice looking and clean piece that will go well in my mostly original 1964 kitchen. In a perfect world, I'd like the range and the oven to be of the same vintage, preferably from the same home so I can say they are "a matched set" so to speak. Unfortunately the Avocado fridge that was in the home with this range was long gone from what I was told. So I'm still on the hunt for the avocado fridge and also a built-in kitchenaid suburba in avocado as well.
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