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My Aunt had the french door version that they purchased when they built their new house in 1966, my parents had bought a GE Americana bottom freezer refrigerator with the Auto Fill Ice tray a year before when we moved. My Aunt liked our refrigerator so much, they decided to buy something similar. I was always impressed with it, because our houses were very colonial at the time and my Aunt's french door Coldspot had barn looking doors with woodgrain on the front and big hinges painted on. I loved the right door because there was a plate that said "Built for Victoria by Sundburg Ferar" I always thought that was cool. She had that refrigerator up until 1982 when the compressor went bad. It was a pretty dependable refrigerator, she had the door gaskets changed a few times, there was no folding mullions on those models, I think the ice maker and evaporator fan motor was changed once. The sides of the refrigerator was coppertone. I found a picture of it, sorry for Ronald McDonald in the picture it was Halloween. LOL

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sorry to bump this thread but i saved this one from getting scrapped. I used to work for lowes delivery and a customer paid to have this taken away but i couldn't let that happen so i took her home, can anybody give me some info on it?

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I recognize those handles.  Our '75 Coldspot had them, and they were used on models starting a couple of years earlier.  I'm pretty sure that's a repaint.  Turquoise was no longer offered by the time that fridge was produced, and to my knowledge, the grille at the bottom was usually black or silver regardless of the exterior cabinet color.

 

These fridges were well made, run quietly, and cool well.  I presume it's in proper working order, and if that's the case, it may have a lot more years of life in it that you think.  It's a rare model and was well worth saving.

 

You might want to launch a new thread, as that's the best way to attract interest.  There are those among the membership who sigh and roll their eyes at revived ancient threads (including myself), but then I have a thing for refrigerators ;-)
 
Brown color on the back

Oh yes -- a "coppertone" shade would have been right in style when that fridge was produced.

 

I'm looking forward to more pictures!
 
Neat French-Door Top Freezer WP built Coldspot

These were very good refs in their day, they also sold a FD bottom freezer that was much more popular so these are pretty rare, I only remember working on one or two of these refs.

 

Back in the day common problems were defrost timers, condenser and evaporator fan motors, stuck start relays and start capacitors on the compressor.

 

Hopefully it will be easy to fix, all of the parts I mention are still easy to find, if you have trouble I probably have anything you might need. 

 

Only bad thing about using this ref is the amount of power it uses, figure around 150-190 KWs per month or about 3-4 times as much as a new ref. Good thing is it will keep your kitchen warm in the winter.

 

John L.
 
John cited two problems my mom's SxS version of this fridge had over the 33 years it served in her kitchen. 

 

The evaporator fan in the freezer failed, which I replaced, and the compressor relay also had to be replaced.  Both were easy R&R processes and parts costs were relatively minimal.  The defrost timer motor was sometimes loud enough to hear when the fridge wasn't running, but it never failed.
 

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