NOT a 1948 Custom Imperial Range $50 (Marin Co.)

[rp2813]

Millenials must have bought the house that contains this stove.

 

Very nice for $50.

 

More pix in the link.

 

 

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/app/5969768102.html

 

[sudsmaster]

More like 1958...

 

I think some of the CL stove sellers/givers are going by the age of the house the stove is in, rather than any knowledge of the actual date of mfg.

 

Still, this is a nice one. Another steal, at $50.

 

Your posts make me wonder if there's a remodeling boom going on in the SF Bay Area, resulting in a new crop of vintage ranges becoming available to the discerning collector.

 

 

[norgeway]

Try

Mid 60s, That cabinet design came out in 64 but that model is a few years newer wish it was near me!

 

[rp2813]

Rich, I think boomer homes have composed a large part of the current real estate inventory for at least the past few years, but it does seem like people are wanting to dump really nice stuff for cheap of late.

 

Maybe this means a Maytag 806 or Easy Spindrier will surface by spring for use on my patio .

 

I wish I had a place to store some of these nice stoves so I could sell them to (L.A.) hipsters who read Dwell, Atomic Ranch, etc.

 

[combo52]

It is a 1965

I had this exact range as an extra range in our W Va. house and gave it to Steve in Roanoke Va. to use as a canning range.

 

It was a neat range, but the right oven is so complicated that it never worked till bypassed the Tender-Matic system and put a regular thromostat in like the left oven has.

 

The neat thing was the dual pull N clean oven liners, I took the stops out so you could just take the liners out side and spray them with oven cleaner and hose them down.

 

Unfortunately even though both the Speed Heat and Heat-Minder burners worked properly the stove was about impossible to cook of between the wide Raidant-Tube elements that never stayed flat and the inconsistent infinite controls FD used no two elements ever behaved the same.

 

If you really want a vintage electric range that is more than pretty a GE or Hotpoint, or even a Westinghouse is a much better range than a FD.