if you could travel back in time to buy your dream vintage washer dryer set what would it be

[pierreandreply4]

Hello to all aw members,

If you could travel back in time to buy your dream vintage washer dryer set brand new what would it be , for me in my case it would be this set in harves gold of course made by inglis with the fabric sofner dispenser thats mounted on the agitator

 

[washman]

A 1965 Speed Queen in Avacado Green. Featuring the world famous Arc-cuate 210 transmission and fluid drive mechanism.

 

[goatfarmer]

........

 

[thomasortega]

hummmmmmmm

Difficult to answer...

I just hope the time travel is made using a Tardis, so I could to to several different years and countries and fit as many washers I could.

Then I'd take maybe 2 years only unloading the tardis in present.

 

[mrsalvo]

1961 or 1962 Kenmore with waterfall lint filter with scrubber cap agitator OR 1968-1969 GE Filter-Flo in avacado green. I wouldn't turn down an indexing top loading Westy of the 70's either. Hard choice.

 

[gregingotham]

top of the line 1-18

from the early 70s with three speeds and extra rinse...poppy red

 

[classiccaprice]

Easy

1959 Westinghouse 1000 set.

 

[brucelucenta]

Wow! I'm surprised at all of these choices. For me it would be either the 1958 TOL Norge set or 1957 Kelvinator set with the "do all" dial or an Apex set with the glass inserts on the washer lid and dryer door. More than likely, the Kelvinator or Apex set. They were the most unusual and had the most action.

 

[akronman]

Oh

So many to choose from. Likely a Frigidaire from the early 60's, one of the RapidDry models. Or a Control top from the late 50's.

 

[norgeway]

63

Custom Imperial Frigidaire set in PINK!

 

[mayken4now]

A906 & DG906

 

[turquoisedude]

'56 GE Filter Flo with the matching dryer.... in turquoise.   Bet you didn't expect that.... LOL 

 

[bajaespuma]

Good Golly Nemesis!!

For once there's something we're not going to compete for!!!!

 

Well, I always fantasize about finding a NOS Hotpoint 1969 Duo-Load pair (in coppertone)even though I know performance would be disappointing.

 

I suppose I'd also love to find a vintage Miele professional washer and dryer with the backsplash, water heater and ridiculously fast spin.

 

[wayupnorth]

My vintage washer is this 1948 Kenmore I got in August. My dryer is a clothesline just like my mothers was. I HATE winter. I want to let my Maytags rest and play with them.

 

[whirlykenmore78]

1976 Lady Kenmore:

In Harvest Gold like my Grandma had. With the matching electronic control dryer.

WK78

 

[strongenough78]

1971 Lady Kenmore set. I'm going to find one someday.

 

[lebron]

1947 General Electric or 1959 Lady Kenmore set

 

[foraloysius]

Miele W421S and T460 or Miele W412S and T450.

 

[kd12]

1968 Whirlpool Imperial Mark Xll washer. Revvinkevin has/had one. I've never seen one in the wild though.

 

[kd12]

Ooops

Sorry, that was just the dryer. Here is the set.

 

[pierreandreply4]

i think phil has the inglis version of that set in harvest g

i think phil a member of the site has the inglis version of this set in harvest gold but with the lighted timer knob as well

 

[kenmoreguy64]

Good question!!

I think it would be fun to go back to 1972, mid-year at a Sears store.

They still had the super-tall centerpost 18lb washers with the whopper Roto-Swirl, which I have never seen "in the wild" as they say. There was such a variety of models regular capacity models that year, maybe 15 different machines including carry-overs from 1970 and 1971. I was fascinated by the control dials used by most models in combinations of all white, half white/half chrome, and all chrome. They still had the porcelain on steel tub rings, and most models had differing consoles from the next, as in the 1960s.

I focus on this year though because my Mom got a new dryer that year, and I was in the store for part of that, just enough to be thoroughly intrigued, but I was just too young to absorb the details I would have later (and probably too short to look at the machines in detail without a booster stool, lol).

Gordon

 

[jessed]

I would go back to 1957 so i could purchase a Frigidaire control tower washer and matching dryer. I would most likely choose a white set because white goes with almost anything.

 

[washerlover]

Any Norge from 1955-1962!

 

[re563]

I would like to go back to 1959 and get a "Program Computer" Westinghouse set like Mopor has. Stop in at 1972 and pick up a GE set along with a Frigidaire 1-18 crown set. Has to have with window lid you know.

 

[gansky1]

Fun thread!

I think I'd have to hitch a ride with Thomas in his Tardis and make a few stops...

Way back to the early 50's for an APEX washer and probably a Frigidaire. On to 1966 for a Whirlpool Mark XII set and then into the 70's for an impulse buy of some kind.

 

[brucelucenta]

The Apex and Kelvinator washers were really the most fun!

 

[askolover]

any of the turquoise Maytag sets!!

 

[vintagekenmore]

I think it would be one of the good ole Frigidaire thumpers with the matching dryer...I remember our turqouise coin op we bought from a laundromat that closed.....it washed like no ones business...two temps..warm and hot....the gold operating light being on while it did its thing......and man did that puppy spin....it was fun to watch it wash through the glass lid

 

[spinmon]

Ah,Sears...

We had a '67 Lady Kenmore set in white. Awesome except the RotoFlex supposedly required lowest water level just below top row of tub holes! Very little diff to ''full'' level.

Loved the look/sounds of these machines,but am currently very happy with same on my '12 SQ 542 tl pair. Especially spin/spray rinse efficiency. The washer even makes ''woo-woo'' sounds at times.

Kenmoreguy64,I totally concur about '71-'72 vast KM choices. Those first 18 lb looked almost scary deep inside with the speckle or maybe 'blue' tub!

I think an early 70's 18 lb white tub RotoSwirl '70'/'800' would be my pick.