GE gained MY RESPECT!
I remember in college at FSU, in the dorm laundry room.....the boys would stuff those machines full, stand on them to get even more clothes in and to get the lid to close, put about half a box of soap powders in, slam the change in, and go on about their business for a few hours! Those machines had the ramp agitators and NEVER seemed to break down!!! I graduated in 1978 and decided that the GE would be my FIRST washer. Unfortunately, when I went to buy one, I ended up with a harvest gold set of Maytag 608's. They had just stopped production of the 806's and only had a dryer in Avacado green!...so the harvest gold was the choice. Those Maytags are still running perfectly and until a year ago had never even had their belts changed! A Maytag with that GE ramp agitator would have been an awesome machine. Washability of the GE agitator and the dependability of the Maytag!!! Mark