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[Unimatic1140]

To 2:55

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[cleanteamofny]

Oh Monty, you shouldn't have!

 

[polkanut]

Monty,

I'll take the SUPER deal also! I love the fridge with the radio combo. I wonder how many of those were sold?

 

[bajaespuma]

This reminded me...

How many of all the appliances I covet today I first saw behind the curtain. I used to love this show.

 

[tlee618]

Oh those were the days!! Such fun appliances, sure wish that we could get things like that today. Very fun Robert, thanks for the memories!!

 

[whirlcool]

I wonder how many of those 3 door fridges are still around complete with tape player?

Has anyone here seen the new Let's Make A Deal? I don't think that it captures the spirit that Monty Hall had. He sure made it seem like a party!

 

[danmantn]

If you liked that...

You should rent/purchase "DEAL" - a documentary on the show. People originally protested the show stating that it would be evil and bring out the greed in people. Check the DVD out on Amazon--worth getting just to see all the behind the scenes. Hall made a FORTUNE as it ran for a very long time--even the announcer had a mansion and a pool. Also interesting to see people chain smoke at work. Glad those days are gone.

 

[strongenough78]

Wow they made out like bandits! LOL. The girl who won the car though, poor woman. The Chevy Monza was nothing to get happy over. Which I'm sure she found out later lol.

 

[sudsmaster]

I was impressed with the $299 for a freakin' answering machine.

I guess back then they were relatively rare. And it's a good example of the price premium typically charged for the latest electronic technology, which still occurs to this day.

What the Monza really just a reskinned Chevette?

GM certainly has come out with detestable small cars over the years. Evidently the company never got the memo that quality in a small car sells - something the Japanese learned very well. Instead the GM bean counters were all brainwashed into thinking that small had to equal cheap, shoddy, ill-handling, uncomfortable, and underpowered. I won't mention names because some of you may own one :-|

 

[supersuds]

The Monza

...was a reskinned Vega. It had a different engine; as I recall you could even get a small V-8. The Vega wasn't too bad a car for its day except for the aluminum-block engine without iron liners -- a technology Mercedes has since shown to be feasible.

I was in a school carpool with a couple of other families on the street; one of them had a Pinto and the other a Vega station wagon. Neither was a prize but I really dreaded riding in the Pinto. As far as I could tell the Pinto had literally nothing going for it except a good, long-lived engine.

 

[strongenough78]

Sudsmaster, the Chevette was a MUCH smaller car. A total pile. Supersuds got it though. It was a reskinned Vega.

 

[whirlcool]

The Vega had many different faces in the GM lineup. Just about every division except Cadillac & Buick had a version of it. Same car, just different sheet metal.

It was GM's attempt at a VW Beetle fighter, as VW was still selling lots of bugs in the U.S.

While the concept was good, the underpinning design was just terrible. Vegas usually fell apart by 50,000 miles. Or the engine would just melt down. I always thought the interior was nicely designed. They tried to save it with that Iron Duke 4 engine(Pontiac), but it was too late the cars reputation was out there.

The link leads to more about the Vega. Except for the occasional Cosworth Vega, I haven't seen one on the road for years and years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Vega

 

[frigilux]

$2,700 for a TOL range, a dishwasher, a refrigerator and a washer/dryer pair.

You'd pay that much for a TOL Whirlpool/Maytag/LG front-loader pair (with pedestals) these days!

 

[cleanteamofny]

Re Run

If you did see the new Let's make a Deal this past Friday, you would have seen Monty Hall in action on the show!
Now that was classic in the makings!

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[duet83]

When I was growing up, in the 70s, our next door neighbor had that washer and dryer in Harvest gold... in there carpeted kitchen. Yes, there was a time when low pile, commercial grade carpet, with pattern, was the thing in your kitchen.

They swore by Frigidaire. Before the Harvest gold set they had another Frigidaire set.

Thanks Robert.

 

[gansky1]

I always wanted that refrigerator! I wrote away for the full-line catalog from Frigidaire and dreamed about those appliances for a month after it arrived.