Wow, when one attains notoriety on AW.org...!
I am quoting Nick, Andy and Kenny:
"Gordon, don't you have the matching washer for this?" -- Nick
"Actually, the better challenge is to find a dryer that Gordon DOESN'T have the match to... LOL! -- Andy
"Yeah, I think Gordon has about a hunnert or so washers to match that....." -- Kenny
Ok gents, yes, I have the matching washer to that dryer. There are actually two models that match it exactly, one is oddly a little de-contented vs. the other, and I'm hoping this spring to do another "brothers Kenmore" or in this case a "Ladies Kenmore" sidy-by-side comparison of the two, since I have both. One funny enough came from Kenny, and guess where the other came from??? Yep, from Andy. I was working on one of them yesterday and found out that it is going to need centerpost seals as it leaked right down the centerpost onto the transmission cover, which is not good.
I would actually LOVE to find this dryer in white. If I had one as nice as the one in the ad, I might give them inside-the-house, daily driver status.
As to having a lot of black panel machines, yeah, well I've let a few photos leak of the insanity that is my stock of black panel models. BUT, oddly enough, of the 75+ distinct 29-inch black panel models that existed from 1976 to 1983 model years, there are a few that I have seldom if ever seen, which I would still go out of my way to obtain.
I still plan to let some of the current supply of black panel machines out of the coral later this year, and I have a couple AW.org members who seem interested (Yay!).
Gordon