Pleasant Surprise and a bit of a Quandary

[panthera]

Friend of mine volunteers at the local Habitat Restore. I don't at this one for reasons which are more for Dirty Laundry, so whenever he calls and says he has something in PANK! I take notice.

Their management had rejected it and it was headed for the scrap bin.

Would I like them? He doubted they'd be in decent enough condition by the time he rescued them, but for a few bucks, I could have them for parts.

Given that we have two Flairs of this era (roughly) and have a good shot at a third, I of course said - YES!

And, they're PANK!

 

Tonight, he brought them buy. Two tiny nicks in the porcelain on the oven doors, at the bottom from being thrown into the metal bin.

Everything else - no scratches, dents, chips, all the knobs there and all the elements pass the resistance tests....

So, here's the question. We definitely could use the odd knob, spare heating element, etc. BUT - this is NOT trash.

Sigh.

(Of contentment at having such problems). Wish I'd had a shot at the refrigerator, but that was replaced with one in AVOCADO sometime about fifty years ago.....

What would y'all do?

 

[warmsecondrinse]

I'd fix it up and either keep it myself or find it a good where it'd be appreciated and lovingly used.

I'd do that in partial atonement for putting a Flair out for the trash. I had no idea of its value at the time.

However, it went to a good home. Within 30 seconds of turning our backs on it we heard the screech of brakes, a bit of commotion, and by the time we turned around we only saw a dark green pick-up fading into the distance.......

 

[panthera]

Yeah,

Jim, I'm leaning that way. We've been rotating through Flairs, Monarchs (that's the one where the energy control only kills one leg, something apparently no other stove has ever done), the RAINBOW Westinghouse, the GE  SPACEMAKER from 1974....

And it's just awful hard to see how to do it these....but....gosh, I'm a sucker for PANK! (to accept Avocado, it would have to be a Thumper, or one where I could change the colour really easily).

I'll sleep on it a few weeks.

Awful pretty and those French doors, sigh.