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I was going to post this in the truck load o'maytag thread but thought it might be more like hi-jacking, so anyway.....
I have a Maytag electric dryer that is model# GDE808. As far as washing machines go, what model number would I be looking for to make a match with my dryer? I read all the posts about 806's and 608's and I don't know what I'm looking for. I love the center dial and I'm so happy I didn't give away this dryer that came with my house. I brought a dryer with me and the previous owners left the maytag here and instead of hooking ours up, it was easier to use the maytag. Well, needless to say, we ended up giving our newer dryer to a friend in need because I absolutely love that maytag! And since I became a member here, I have been wondering what dryer would have been produced at the same time as my dryer? Any help would be appreciated. By the way, my dryer is harvest gold color, I know this doesn't affect the model number ,but I would like to find that ever so elusive match!
 
There Was an 808 dryer!

I had one. Still have the instruction manual. Bought a brand new matching set (A806 washer (gold panel)and DG808 dryer.) The dryer must have just come out in 1976 when I bought it. Loved those machines and sorry I ever got rid of them. Took them with me from Chicago to California. Still worked when I decided to go with KitchenAid. My sister-in-law has the lower end of the same machines and they are still going strong 30 years later after 2 kids. She should have been in one of those Maytag ads! Had the lint filter in the front and the bigger opening. I always felt gyped because the A806 was a later model which didn't come with the interior light even though the sales literature stated that it did. My current A806 (earlier model with the chrome knob and blue lower panel) does come with an interior light. Love those things!
 
no 808 washer?

So, there was no 808 washer for the 808 dryer? Not trying to stir up a hornet's nest or anything, just curious about the production of these machines, but where would appnut have gotten the GA808 for a washer model? Appnut, where are you, now I'm curious! I know there have been discussions on these over the past couple months and I was just as confused then!! LOL!
I wondered if there was a dryer model with an interior light, as mine does not have one and I often wish for one. Nonetheless, I love my dryer and would like to find a reasonably priced washer to match.
Kenny, thank you for your offer. I don't know if I'm ready to look at freight shipping right now, we're saving for our first ever family vacation (it's in 3 weeks) and we're driving from Pa to Florida (gas cost nightmare). No lighted console, eh? If you want to email me the particulars, feel free, I can at least talk it over with my husband and see if it grabs his attention. Again, thank you for offering and the input on the model numbers!
Chris
 
minty fresh maytags...

I would love to see some photos! I was drooling over the truck load that goatfarmer recently got, that avocado especially, but I would soooooooo easily settle for a white washer until I could get my harvest gold. I think I really am set on a lighted console, once I realized my dryer had one I haven't been the same. One thing I'll say, no one I know understands how excited I get about drying my clothes! I love that glow while the dryer hums along!
 
808

Lest anyone think I am boasting about having the biggest number, I am not at all certain the numbers on my Maytag set were 808. 808 was a memory I have and I have not seen them since 2000. I bought them in Parchment, Michigan, in 1977. Parchment is just oustide of Kalamazoo and named for the Parchment Vegetable Paper Company. The town was formed/owned/managed by a mini demagogue, named Kindleburger. We lived in one the managers houses on Park avenue, overlooking Kindleburger park. I bought the absolute finest and most tricked out models Maytag offered. I negotiated with the Dutchman, named Dykstra, that ran the local appliance store and got the set for $1,000 cash. (Do you know why Dutchman wear wooden shoes? It keeps the woodpeckers off their head! I can say that as I am a hardheaded Dutchman) Oddly enough, when I bought the new Atlantis set, from Shaw's, in Ellensburg, Washington, 22 years later, I paid, $1,000 cash, for the TOL set. The early washer had 4 speed choices, 2 for wash and two for spin. It had 4 water levels and you could freely choose any wash/rinse water temperature you wanted. It had two cycles, one regular and one for Permanent Press. It had a cool option to prewash, drain and then go into the wash cycle. I would use cold water and bleach in the prewash, add liquid soap to the fabric softener for the wash and then proceed to hot wash and warm rinse, for the whitest whites you have ever seen. The dispenser dropped the soap after the prewash spin. Bleach interferes with the brightening properties of laundry soap, so using them separately works better. That is why the Whirlpools and Sears had the delayed bleach dispenser. I wished you could get a lint filter with the chrome top and the blue plastic filter. I also had a filter for an earlier Maytag, that was flat and the Maytag logo embossed into the metal. I liked to watch the way the water sloshed over the top of the agitator. The set was amazing. I did diapers for 3 kids, the laundry for 6 as they grew up and mountains of linens for catering. We had a women who worked for us who had a family of five and did all her laundry at our house for 3 years. In 2000, we moved to an older 2 story house with limited electrical and a gas supply for the dryer. I was intrigued by the Norgetag washer and really wanted to buy a front loader. Pigs will fly out my heiny before I buy a washer that won't let me watch. The Atlantis may be cheap plastic, but it is more capacious, vigorous and the dryer provides clothes that are fluffier and more wrinkle free than the old one. Our last child left for college and we moved to Seattle, where the Atlantis now resides, with my exwife. The 806 0r 8 (It doesn't matter how big the number is, it's how often you get to wash!) were gifted to a friend of my son, who together with his girlfriend, got pregnant. I even made the wedding cake for the Wedding at the Elm Street Baptist Church, another gift.
 

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