Cheap and scarce Whirlpool French Door Refrigerator

[funktionalart]

They want $200 for everything in the ad…I would love to have the fridge--especially if it's going to be $50 or less. Not a lot of these 80s/early 90s French door models around. Of course, I'm partial to black acrylic….

Demolition Sale - we're demolishing a house and have no need for the working condition appliances
We're selling the bundle for $200.00 or contact me with offers are individual items
Whirlpool - Refrigerator
Whirlpool - Oven Gas Range with Microwave
Whirlpool - Dishwasher
Watercooler

As far as we know they are all in working condition, but they are old.

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/bks/5539616719.html
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/bks/5539616719.html

 

[appnut]

No dishwasher photo.

 

[ovrphil]

Worth a closer look

beautiful fridge, Allen.

 

[funktionalart]

Yellowed door liners...

are a bit of a let down, but if it's working well, I wouldn't mind having it considering how cheap this lot is!

 

[ovrphil]

Can't those door liners be removed and treated with a paste and UV to bring back to original look? I don't have the formula in my head, but it would be worth researching if door removal isn't brain surgery.

 

[funktionalart]

Recipe for whitener...

Phil,

You know, I saw that recipe posted up here somewhere a long, long time ago. I'm not sure if that paste would go deep enough to really restore these panels properly. My temptation would be to remove them and have an auto shop do a good white enamel job on them, then reinstall. Nothing looks worse than a yellowed white fridge…sure doesn't do much for your appetite when you open up the door...

 

[fan-of-fans]

Neat fridge, I didn't know such a model existed. The range looks almost a dead ringer for a Caloric.

 

[combo52]

Great WP Ref

These were really good refs, they still have a Porcelain-on-steel liner in the ref and freezer sections.

 

The door liners are not yellowed, they were made in an off white color, during the early 80s almond was the most popular color and the door liners went well with almond.

 

The gas range is made by Coloric, the MW part is built by WP., WP had Coloric building their gas ranges in most of the 80s.

 

[coldspot66]

I agree that this is a GREAT refrigerator. Mine is 28 yrs old and still going strong.
The only repairs I have done on it is a solid state relay for the compressor, 2 sets of door gaskets and a defrost timer. It is approaching the longevity of our 1966 Coldspot "twindor cupboard" refrig that lasted 33 years b4 the compressor gave out.
It's pretty quiet and keeps everything consistently cold and frozen. I suspect I will never get this kind of trouble free service out of the next refrig I will have to buy.

 

[funktionalart]

Almond vs. yellowed...

Thanks John~
I was wondering about the door liners -- back in '85 we had a new WP side x side, almond exterior with the same interior crispers (smoky quartz), and it had almond/off white door liners.

I presumed this black French door I posted would have had white door liners based on a similar unit I found here in AZ last week. (a 1992 model which sold yesterday--I was going to go get it!). I'm putting pics here "just because". It's a white/white top fridge, bottom freezer--I needed it like a hole in the head, but knew it was probably worth having….it was missing one crisper drawer, but really the thing looked quite nice inside and didn't show that horrible yellowing of the exterior handles, etc. which is such a hallmark of 80s/90s white appliances.

 

[fan-of-fans]

I like how the 80s and 90s appliances had those black or white with the chrome trim inside and out. After the late 90s everything got so bland with the textured white handles and trim with no chrome at all. Blah.

 

[funktionalart]

Cole~exactly...

BLAND. I lost interest in most new cars around the same point in time. When chrome begins to disappear, you know things are on a cheap downward spiral….

 

[combo52]

1992 WP Built Bottom Freezer Ref

These were the last good BFRs built PERIOD, yes WP went to white door liners in the early 90s as part of the White on White look, WOW often aged badly as different plastic parts changed colors at different rates, overall WOW appliances were had to resell after about ten years because they often looked so bad. Consumers thought they were smart by just buying white appliances after all the colors of the 60s-80s and ended up buying appliances that had just as much planned O as the colored appliances had, LOL.