Frigidaire Poppy Suprise!

[moparwash]

Went to pick up a friend and see their new place, and this was in the kitchen!

 

[moparwash]

Open Wide

Nice inside...I told him not to get rid of it, and theme the kitchen around this color!

 

[moparwash]

It's a real Frigidaire!

The sticker still attached!

 

[pdub]

How cool!

It's a GM made 3 door version. I still have my 2 door version from 1976 and it's still going strong.

 

[pdub]

FCI-20V

doors open on mine...

 

[pdub]

I took the shelves for the ice trays out and added on the "Automatic Ice" maker.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

FRIGIDAIR-IFFIC!!!!!!

I always thought this was a very exciting design! Especially the narrow tubular shaped light bulbs over the doors (which luckily you can still get!)...!

The only "minus": You have to move the entire thing away from the wall to clean the condenser coils behind!

-- Dave

 

[moparwash]

Great Pics Pdub!

Looks great filled with food!

 

[pdub]

Thanks Jerry and Dave

Of course I moved things around inside for the photo before I took the pictures. LOL

Also the coils are underneath the fridge not on the back! You have to pull out the fridge from the wall, then remove a cardboard panel on the bottom at the back and use a vacuum crevice tool to suck out the lint and dust. I do it about every two years.

Here's the ice maker control up close.

 

[gansky1]

Nice Frigidaires. Pat, does your ice maker work? What do the cubes look like?

 

[pdub]

Greg, YES!

The ice maker does work. I actually have a spare should this one ever stop working but it never has. It's been running perfect since I put it in about 1993 and since we have soft water here, no build up on the plastic flex ice tray so they keep popping out perfectly.

Here's a picture of the bin with ice in it.

 

[pdub]

Here is a picture of the cubes in a glass. maybe you can see these better.

 

[pdub]

And here is a picture looking up into the bottom of the ice maker with the bin removed.

 

[pdub]

Just for fun...

I bought these ice trays which have never been opened several years ago which make about the same size ice cubes. I've got the smoke colored plastic bin that goes with the trays too. You just lay the trays on top of the bin and push the sides and cubes just pop out.

 

[oldskool]

Too Cool!

Well this results in another addition to my wish list! Extremely cool frig! May it run forever.

 

[washernoob]

You know, I have never once seen a fridge with the doors in that configuration! Very cool!

 

[a440]

Awesome Frigidaire's!

Such great examples! Patrick you are so lucky to have an original!
I so remember these and loved them when they were on the showroom floor back when!
It is awesome that you have one that is working great, and you are the original owner!
Love the ice maker!
Jerry very cool that your friend bought a home with one in it! It looks to be in great condition also!

Thanks for the pictures guys!
Brent

 

[launderess]

"Will I find anything in that ice box of yours?"

"Yeah, a bottle of gin and some cobwebs!" *LOL*

Great find!

 

[laundromat]

3 door Side by side

I had an older version of this along with the exact matching dishwasher, trash compactor,washer and electric dryer. All Custom Imperials. the refrigerator had an "entertainment center" which was an AM/FM radio, a cassett recorder/player/message maker and fit inside a pocket molded out on the smaller third freezer door.It too had the FlexQuick automatic ice maker that worked uaing weight and automaticaly stopped once it was full of non sticking ice cubes.That was because they used the flex trays as oposed to heat to release cubes.The dryer was full of clothes when I got it!---Lady's clothes!!!!

 

[tomturbomatic]

Frigidaire made two similar colors: Poppy and Terra Cotta. I can't tell from the lighting which one you are showing in the first photo; it looks more terra cotta than poppy, but that might be the lighting. I have a set of the small cube trays. I thought the cubes would be cute, but have never used them. The icemaker is too convenient.

 

[washer-kid]

AWESOME....AWESOME....Fridges....Both of you are so lucky to have such great fridges !

 

[kevin313]

Patrick - thanks for sharing these photos of this beautiful fridge! What memories it brought back for me. We had this same fridge in terra cotta/coppertone growing up. I think we got it about 1974 or so and it ran like a top into the late 1980's. I especially remember the woodgrained door handles and shelves...so elegant! It was the only side-by-side we ever owned, and we had a matching Frigidaire CorningWare smooth-topped stove that my mom cooked on endlessly.

I hadn't seen one of these in a long time - thanks again for the photos!

 

[petek]

Very nice looking fridges, love the faux woodgrain. We bought a 3 door GE in almond for our first house together in 86 and never had a problem with that thing. We left it in the house when we moved her in 06. I miss it only because it was such a good fridge, but I really don't miss the too narrow shelves etc which a lot of the time meant having to reach behind or move something to get something else out.

 

[goatfarmer]

Nice set of Frigidaires!

 

I've seen more of the 3 door variety than the regular 2 door side by side.

 

[wireman]

Did Frigidaire make Sears Coldspot fridges?

We have, still plugging along in the basement, a brown (shaded edges) Sears Coldspot side-by-side from somewhere in the 70's... Still works well, but does seem there is something running all the time in it.

It has different woodtone handles, and the icemaker (not hooked up) is in the middle of the freezer section. But, some of the shelves, etc. look similar. Did Frigidaire build the Coldspots of this era for Sears?

Thanks!
Duane

 

[circlew]

Duane, to the best of my knowledge all Coldspot refrigerators in that time period were made by Whirlpool, in their Evansville, IN plant. I'm thinking some later models (Kenmore) were made by GE, but don't think Frigidaire ever made refrigerators for Sears. A good friend of my mom's owned a Sears "catalog merchant" store in the 70's, and got to visit vendors factories occasionally. She was to the Whirlpool plant in Evansville more than once, and also to their factories in Clyde (washers) and Marion (dryers) OH. I remember her telling us that Whirlpool was Sears most important vendor, and that Sears owned majority stock of the company at the time.

 

[macboy91si]

Frigidaire 3-door

I grew up with this fridge in Avocado! My great-grandmother bought it used in the early 80's and it lasted through about 1995, it was noisy, lots of compressor vibration, but I always remember the little ice-door. I thought it was the neatest thing ever. Thanks for sharing this.

-Tim

 

[combo52]

COOL POPPY FRIGIDARE SXSs

Both of these would be the poppy color as the Teracota color was not shadded. Patrick it is very neat that you have one with an IM that still works. We used to repair and replace these all the time and I haven't seen a working one in at least 15 years or more. Soft water probably helps, if the cubes ever start sticking take out the tray and fill it with vinegar and let it sit overnight. I still have a few of these IMs and parts for the same around. I even have a 1967 Frigidare bottom freezer called the Food Life Preserver that has the conveyor belt IM that drops three cubes in a door mounted ice bucket every 11 minutes. And it actually works as the original owner never hooked it up. Frigidare called this IM Automatic Ice Service or AIS. It was Frigidares first IM and was introduced around 1965.

 

The Food Life Preserver refrigerator has 9 motors that make this very complex refrigerator operate. It has three fan motors inside to circulate air in the three different sections, and of course it has a compressor and a condenser fan motor to cool the compressor and condenser. And the AIS has a motor to drive the conveyor belt and there is a defrost timer to control the Frost Proof defrosting of the evaporator coil. There is also a fill timer motor for the AIS IM fill and last but not least there is a motor that opens the refrigerator door at the touch of a small button on the outside of the refrigerator door if your hands are full when you need it opened. Amazingly it all still works but uses an excessive amount of power so I only use it during the holidays when extra space is needed.

 

[gansky1]

My mother's aunt bought a 3-door GM Frigidaire in 1978 or 79 when they built their home in "town" and retired from farming. I was so excited to finally see that Frigidaire ice maker and opened the top freezer door to find to trays and an old Rubbermaid ice bucket. What a let down. She told me she didn't need an "ice contraption" when they could be made so easily for free.

The refrigerator was the only Frigidaire appliance, the range was a Hotpoint Americana-style with microwave above, dishwasher was Maytag TOL all-button control and the washer and dryer were moved in from the farm, Maytag A-408 washer and '72 Speed Queen dryer.

 

[wireman]

Thanks Tom!

I just wondered... Most of the other appliances in this house were Frigidaire; still have the green original 1954 30" Frig. stove in the basement, still works perfectly! Wished I'd scrounged harder for parts for the 1969 40" Frig. Custom Imperial that must have replaced it when they redid the kitchen in the late 60's in the kitchen. Replaced the '69 with a 40" faux Frig. a few years ago, prob. weighs 1/2 what the '69 did, and NO flour. light or 110 v. outlet!

Duane