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

[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.

 

[toploader55]

ABC with Flying Rubber Fins and the Quintessential Glass Lid for Drama Delight

But just to back and have Real choices again... would be fine with me.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I think a flagship-model all-pushbutton Maytag A 906 set, otherwise, I'm torn between a high-ended Whirlpool & an almost-TOL (one model short of an Americana) GE Filter-Flo...

 

(Oh, did I tell you? --I got a thing for a Radio Dial Kenmore, washer & dryer, too...)

 

 

-- Dave

 

[potatochips]

I would get a Maytag A806 and a DE808.

 

[polkanut]

 

My dream set would be a 1968 Whirlpool Imperial Mark Xll washer & dryer set like RevvinKevin had.  One option that I would need to have on the washer though would be Whirlpool's famous "Suds-Miser" feature.

 

 

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[strongenough78]

Probably an obvious answer to this question but I'm curious. Is it possible to convert a 71 Lady Kenmore to the 18 pound capacity tub and still be able to use the Vari Flex agitator in it?

 

[chaskelljr2]

A 1966-67 Lady Kenmore Keyboard Set, a 1981 Lady Kenmore Electronic Set, a Speed Queen Set from the 1960's, and two Frigidaire Sets -- a 1960's Roller-Matic Set with Rapidry Spin on the Washer, and a Frigidaire 1-18 Set (1970-79).

--Charles--

 

[classiccaprice]

While I'm traveling though time, I'd also pick up the 70 series washer to match my 1962 Kenmore Dryer