WOW! Our family had that washer!! It was bought in fall of 1973 to replace a 1963 or 64 GE V-12 which started spitting oil on clothes. The neanderthal GE technician said 'It's not worth fixing, 'cause I gotta smash the agitator to get it out'. We had just finished building a garage (that's a tradition in our family - buy a house then build a garage... LOL) and cash was tight. My father was an ex-Eaton employee and was eligible to shop at the 'bargain store' in the Montreal distribution centre - it later became one of the first 'scratch and dent' department store clearance centres to open to the public in the Montreal region. I remember we got that washer for $175 which my father declared 'Ziss Wiking vasher is good deal, yes'.
As fate would have it, my mother fell very ill later that fall, so I became the 'domestic engineer' at home. I used that machine more than anyone else in the family did - it wasn't hard 'cause I wouldn't let them near it... LOL
The machine lasted until 1990 when my father's dingbat girlfriend at the time decided to try washing a king-size comforter in it...
What memories!!
