Sears musta sold a ton o' these
because of this thread and because I had an aunt who had this same portable in the same color.
In the 1970s, I encountered 3 different families who had built-ins of this DW in the same color. And, in 1975, my family and I stayed in a vacation lodge that had this machine installed in the kitchen. The two times we used it, Mother would load it up and start it just as we were walking out the door to go somewhere, so I never got to see it in action. Now, the harvest gold super capacity coin-op Whirlpool washers in the on-the-grounds laundry center were a different story...
Greg - as to your needing Appliance Anonymous to get you off the habit, you could shut off your internet connection and not read the newspapers, and go to no more estate sales, and the way your luck is running this summer, someone would knock on your front door with some dream machine they'd toted over to you.
All this means is that you may as well get your rear in gear to host the *next* SRVAA convention, so's we can all play with the new stuff you got.