Avocado Kenmore set for sale in Wichita KS

[retropia]

The seller is asking $150 for this Kenmore washer and dryer. I don't recognize the console design, so I'm not sure of the year. I'm guessing it's a belt-drive model, based on the smaller size of the washer lid.

http://wichita.craigslist.org/app/1749504049.html

 

[retropia]

Somebody needs these

I don't know how this set managed to evade my earlier searches. This matching Kenmore 700 washer and dryer are available for $50 in Asheville NC. Somebody call now!

http://asheville.craigslist.org/app/1702970481.html

 

[retropia]

Kenmore LP Gas Dryer

Is this from the late 1960s, maybe? It's available for $40 and located in Duluth MN. The lower front panel appears to have a little duct-tape action going on, but otherwise looks nice.

http://duluth.craigslist.org/app/1768382998.html

 

[bugsyjones]

I could easily get that set in Wichita. I live right by.

It's just too bad I don't want them. Not old enough.

Now if it was a set of '57 Frigidaires, I'd probably have to get it.

No Avocado Kenmores for me.

~Tim

 

[kenmoreguy64]

W H O A !!!!

OK, I am green with Kenmore overload here...

The first set is very interesting and significant to me because this model, in gold though, was the FIRST washer that I completely took apart, down to bare nothing. This happened in the summer of 1990. I even removed the baseplate just to say that I had fully dissassembled and re-assembled a washer. I bought it and a green 1972 Kenmore 60 from a local appliance shop, from their outside scrap lot, for $5 each. The gold cabinet had surface rust on it which I eventually repainted. I used the gold machine as a teaching aid and the green 72 as a parts donor. I eventually prepared the gold washer for use and sold it for $150. I know I got my full value out of that machine!!

This is a 1974 model, and the console is the same as several other 1974/1975 Kenmores with the brushed aluminum top. This machine is a 300 series, believe it or not, even though it has a self-cleaning filter, two speeds, four cycles, and five temps. It's a standard capacity, straight-vane agitator model. It pioneered a specific timer family for Kenmore that went on to serve in MILLIONS and millions of washers from 1976 through 1986, probably one of the most widely used washer timers of all time?

The second set is of the 1969-1974 generation. The washer I think has received a replacement agitator cap. Not certain of that, but the small cap came out, to the best of my knowledge, with the notched, non-handle lid in 1972, so this machine should have had the tapered cone cap. Cool set!!

The final dryer in the batch is a 1971/1972 model. There were older ones which had the left side panel painted dark gray instead of tan, but this was a fairly full-featured machine for 1972.

Neat stuff Retropia!

Gordon

 

[kenmoreguy64]

Tim -

I have a buddy here in Charlotte who might really like that set. If you're serious, let's get them!! If he doesn't want them, I'll keep them.

Gordon

 

[mrb627]

Asheville Set

I wonder if the dryer is gas or electric. I would love to have these if they weren't so far away.

Malcolm

 

[70series]

Wow, that 1974 set is NICE! Pretty fancy for a 200 series, especially with a self clean filter. You can definitely see how the black paneled washers were about to enter the scene.

That 1969 Kenmore 700 washer should definitely have a different cap. Either the cone cap or the agitator mounted dispenser which screwed on like a cap. Interesting contrast of colors on the consoles. The control area is lighter colored than the rest of the console, yet other versions of these models have it the opposite. Could these have premiered before those versions or vice versa?

I like the 1972 model Kenmore dryer. I wonder what series it is, as normally the full width door models were no lower than a 700 series. Of course by the 70s the lower end models had higher end features. It looks like a cross between the 1970 models 70/700 and 60/600 which did have the dark gray left side as Gordon said.

Great washers and dryers which deserve great homes.

Have a good one,
James

 

[circlew]

Gordon, regarding the '74 set in the first pic, they appear (at least on my screen) to be solid colored, rather than edge shaded Avocado. When did Kenmore do away with the shading? I was thinking it was more like the late 70's. Did they continue these '74 models for several years?

The second set is like the ones my neighbor up the street had; got them in '72, also in Avocado.

 

[kenmoreguy64]

Tom -

You're on track on the '74s. The shading was still around in the early version of other 1974 models, and I am not certain exactly when this ended, but the '76 models not shaded. The transition must have happened at some point in that time period, I think by 1975. The 75s in one of my catalogs appear unshadded, but I know the new 1976 models were always unshaded. The new black panel machines featured 'Coffee' instead of Coppertone, and 'New Avocado' in some literature vs. just plan Avocado. Harvest or Tawny Gold gave way to 'Golden Wheat' at about that time too I think.

I have seen an example of this machine as late as a 1978 build (it was green too). It even had the revised centerpost. Four years is a good long life-span for a Kenmore model. I had two of these, both in gold. The first one that I mentioned above was made in 1976, and the other in 1977. Both were unshaded, monotone.

Cool machines - I am considering a trip to Asheville!

Gordon

 

[kenmoreguy64]

I think we missed both these sets. The ads were pretty old, but the seller of the first pair said they were sold, and the ones in Asheville were listed two months ago. I'm surprised Craigslist still had them as an active ad. No reply on those.

Gordon

 

[retropia]

That's a shame; I hope they ended up in appreciative homes.