Question about Frigidaire Cyclamatic refrigerators

[ovrphil]

I'm not sure if this is the place to be asking, but I don't know the year of the refrigerator I saw at the thrift today. It's a Frigidaire Cyclamatic - 15.6 . It's really nothing special inside, but white on the outside, top freezer and older ,but I don't think it's an early 60's model. I'll try to take a picture later, as I pass by to pick up some other things.

But, I was wondering - if anyone knows when the Cyclamatic model was made by Frigidaire...til what year was it made? 1970's? 1960's?

I'll get a photo and post if that unit is still there, at 2:30PM.

Thanks, anyone. [this post was last edited: 4/24/2014-13:12]

 

[polkanut]

I have a white 1972 Frigidaire Cycla-Matic w/ a manual defrost freezer, and my sister has my grandparents 1972 Cycla-Matic in harvest w/ manual defrost freezer.  I don't know how long after this they kept making them though.

 

[ovrphil]

Not what I thought - but....

I was in such a hurry when I first viewed this - it's a freezer, not a refrigerator...and probably nothing at all....

I didn't get a clear image of the logo on the front - it looks like Citation - but I don't recognize the logo ...is it Whirlpool?

Sorry, got thinking of Cyclamatics....and extrapolation and blurred vision took over. LOL!

 

[goatfarmer]

Wizard Citation, sold at Western Auto stores.

 

Frigidaire Cycla Matics were around in the mid 50's.

 

[ovrphil]

Thanks Tim - as I get more familiar with what is what...this wasn't even close to being a Cyclamatic. PhilR posted one , but it's a refrigerator. I've never seen a Cyclamatic Freezer - but this was hardly close.

Thanks Polkanut - is your refrigerator in photos here somewhere- the ones that PhilR posted are early 1960's so I'd like to see a 1972.

 

[ovrphil]

Wizard Citation - mid 1960's

It's not a collectible, of course, but an eBay ad seems to suggest this Wizard Citation I spotted would be later than 1965(see lower left of ad).

...thanks again for identifying and teaching me something...

 

[polkanut]

The fridge's my sister & I have are like the white one on the right w/o the chrome trim.

 

[philr]

GM called "Cycla-Matic" most of it's models with a self-defrosting cold plate in the refrigerator section and a manual defrost freezer. They were made from the early 1950s to the mid-late 1970s (in the very end of GM's production, the models with manual defrost freezers and automatic defrost refrigerators were still made but not called Cycla-Matic).  The white 1962 Imperial refrigerator that I gave to Paul (in the picture that you posted above) is a Cycla-Matic. The turquoise 1961 isn't a Cycla-Matic (it's a Frost-Proof model). 

 

Here's the badge from the 1962 Cycla-Matic.



 

Another 1965 Cycla-Matic that Paul has. 



 

And my turquoise 1961 (which isn't a Cycla-Matic). 

[this post was last edited: 4/25/2014-02:08]

 

[philr]

A later style badge. 

 

[polkanut]

The badge on the freezer doors of our units is nearly identical to the one posted above on the pink fridge.

 

[ovrphil]

Don't you ...

just love the old badge id's? I'm sure this is a oft-repeated comment here at aw.org, but I have to say it after seeing the badge/emblems. Nothing like that exists today - there was a little more pride showing through those badges, eh? I won't forget the cyclamatic or the Western Auto Citation. Funny...

I think of the jet, Citation(I worked at an airport and don't associate a Citation with a refrigerator...but a Cycla-Matic....fits...anything "- amatic ' or "a-rama" is a fond memory of those mid-century years. Thanks for posting your photos, PhilR.