Somewhat similar story here...
Though I was more focused on the washer. There was a reincarnation of that washer in in the 1976 line, which was essentially the same machine, just updated. I so badly wanted one, and they were even actually available for sale on the Sears floor one day in summer 1977 in Denver. Sometimes these BOL of bols were hard to find in stock though, and sales people would try anything to get you buy something else...
The washer in the POD is somewhat hard to use. There has been a bunch of variations of this machine in portables and in different models from the early through the late 1960s, but the 1967 version, (which this is) has only a one-minute rinse, and the wash cycle fills with HOT only from 14 to 5 minutes. That was just stupid if you ask me. To get a warm wash like I almost always use, I would have to fill the machine, then re-set the timer to a decent wash-time, OR put a Y-pipe on the hot water line.
The dryers were pretty cool - no compromises in mechanical attributes from the rest of the line, and they were inexpensive. The only thing a bit different with them is they had the lint filter removable in the bulkhead to save cost --- same configuration as portable dryers of WP and Kenmore. In the 1976 there were two versions of this dryer, one with the drum mounted filter, and a step-up model with the top mounted filter, probably 10 bucks higher in price. The electric versions of these were only 4400 watt machines, vs. 5200 or 5600 watts of most others.
Gordon
