EXCELLENT. great find. complete with window. I thought the windows were an after market thing, but that looks real from the factory.
You say it needs to be taken apart and cleaned but it looks like it just needs a sponge down and its as good as new.
Our neighbors, in the 70s, had a matching harvest gold frigidaire set in there kitchen with that agitator. I got yelled at a couple of times for attempting to open the lid and look inside.
Now I have seen a couple of Frigidaires briefly, from the 60s and looking underneathe they seemed quite complicated and they weighed alot. However, this washer looks much more streamlined with the inner and outer tub in close proximity so not alot of waste on water. THIS washer seems similliar to todays GEs in layout, meaning the motor and transmission are bottom of the tub mounted.
So I am wondering, why did they stop making this style frigidaire washer? I mean it is not like when Whirlpool changed from BD to DD, an improvement for sure. I think everyone agrees that the White Westys that followed in the early 80s and there after were junk but they were NOTHING like THIS design.
Were these washers to expensive to manufacure, prone to breakdown, too harsh on clothing, simply too good and thus would last too long and defying programmed obsolescence? This inquiring mind wants to know.
Think of what this design washer would look like today if still made.
