Nice Sears Flair in Monterey

[rp2813]

In great shape with original owner's manual.  Seems reasonably priced.  More pix in the ad.

 

 

http://monterey.craigslist.org/app/2152474938.html

 

[tomturbomatic]

That stove is made by Roper. It was called a Roper "Charm." I don't remember what term Sears applied to it. Note that the cooktop pulls out. Consider access to the lower oven when the cooktop is out. Imagine preparing a large Thanksgiving meal with the turkey in the lower oven and things cooking on the surface units. What do you do each time you need to baste the bird and where do you put it when you take it out of the oven? Neither oven used top heat in baking. That range could not have been used very much to be in the shape it appears to be in, but it's not a very usable range.

 

[appnut]

Tom, I had the same thought occur to me -- using the lower oven as well aw surface cooking simultaneously -- when I realized that there was a lower oven instead of two ovens above the cooktop. 

 

[rp2813]

OK, my bad.  I thought it was a Flair re-badged as a Kenmore.  My partner had a used Kenmore back in the early 70's that he described like a Flair.  I presumed it was a re-badged Frigidaire but was probably this Roper-made model.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Ralph, He could have easily been talking about the 40" Roper with two ovens above the cooktop. That was the original design. My neighbor in Greenbelt had one from the early 60s, but by the mid 80s, it was having trouble with the oven door gaskets and things, but she was in the same shape. This was a later model that proved two wrongs don't make a right.