Unless you live where droughts are common, I don't see a problem with using water. Here in northern New Jersey, water actually falls from the sky on a regular basis.
In my view, whirlpool basically made the same machine from the late 1940s to circa 1986. They were good machines, but I wouldn't associate them with "advanced technology".
By all means Whirlpool deserves credit for the dual-action agiatator, but let's not foget that Maytag was first with...
When I was a kid in the 1960s, the houses in my neighborhood were built in the 1920s, everyone had carpeting, most homes had gas ranges, many had oil/steam heat, and asthma was no where near as common in children as it is today.
Yes, a little drafty is good. New houses are tight, people don't open windows, then they find they get asthma, get sick a lot, and can't have carpeting.
I find the Maytag center dial styling to be timeless, and it certainly holds up better today than many other designs, for example, machines with vinyl fake wood grain treatments. Also note that chrome has made a comeback on new cars.
I believe that most brands 1966 and older had a rear pump and can be push started. GM, Chrysler, Ford, and Borg Warner (used by Rambler and Studebaker).
Because I have a hood over my gas range with a powerful exhaust fan vented to outside I'm not worried, but with this in the news I have been more diligent about using the fan.
I'm sure there are many apartment buildings out there with gas ranges and no exhaust fan.
According to a 2020 report by the National Fire Protection Association, households with electric stoves reported fires at a rate 2.6 times higher than those with gas stoves.
If you think the 1959 Rambler wagon was ugly, perhaps you've never seen a 1959 Ford, Chevy, or Plymouth wagon.
I had a 1964 Rambler American. I got 235,000 miles out of it.
bradfordwhite wrote:
"The (Pacer) engine wasn't reliable"
The AMC inline six that was built from 1964 to 2006 wasn't reliable? You've got to be kidding!
The only cars that rusted as quickly as Chevy Vegas in the early 1970s were Hondas.
The Hondas, Toyota Corollas, and Datsuns...
My 1978 Ford LTD Landau Coupe, the last year for the big LTD, lasted 330,000 miles. With it's 351W 2-barrel it always got an honest 22 MPG highway. It was a wonderful highway car.
Julia Child may have had an electric burners on television, but she had gas burners at home.
I grew up with electric, but for those who didn't it's very different.