Vintage Queen?

[saltysam]

Found this machine posted on Craigslist in Kansas City.  It is stated in the ad that the machine is a Speed Queen XL capacity front load.  Would anyone know the approximate year of this machine?  Picture is not the greatest but this one is different from most front loaders.

Mark

http://kansascity.craigslist.org/app/2157583110.html

 

[ingliscanada]

Recent

The washer looks modern, but it does have a different door than other SQs. Maybe a premium model.

 

[gansky1]

I have one of these Speed Queen front-load washers and love it!  Mine is 2004 - I bought it from a dealer NOS last year. 

It's worth a look for that price - even if it needs a little work, a helluva deal!

 

[lebron]

Greg

Got any pics of that Whirlpool? ^_^

 

[gansky1]

This one? 

 

 

[gansky1]

The day I brought it home - and discovered it wasn't ever used...

 

[macboy91si]

Color?

Is that platinum?

-Tim

 

[autowasherfreak]

I don't like the inset cheap plastic lid handles WP when to in the  80's.   That might be Almond, but I'm not sure.

 

[combo52]

WP LHA9800 PLATINUM WASHER

At least WPs lid handle kept you from breaking your nails unlike MTs non lid handle, when I worked for MT in the 1970s women customers would sometimes complain about the heavy hard to grab lids on MT washers. WP also had counter balance springs on thier washer lids to make them easier to lift, its just one of many reasons they were the number 1 producer of washers & dryers even then.

 

[nmassman44]

always loved that model Whirlpool washer...so sleek and always loved the belt drives and the sounds they make too.

 

[macboy91si]

Handles

I've always been fond of the handles on the WP washers of this era. If not for looks, they are very comfortable to the hand and easy to open.

 

-Tim

 

[alr2903]

Lid handle change,  I think CU, complained that the vintage chrome handle failed to create a "flat surface for folding".  The whirly and Km's both had a "handled" lid for a long while. Who knows maybe CU thought people created oragami, during the wash cycle.
The chrome handles were never an issue when folding towels or jeans. alr2903

 

[washernoob]

Greg this is unacceptable. You have too many nice machines! I had no idea that thing was never used! You are way lucky!

 

[gansky1]

This is indeed Platinum.  It sat in the front window of an old appliance/vacuum/sewing machine shop here in Omaha for it's entire life.   The paint on  the front of the washer as well as that lid handle are a bit faded, but Platinum was one of the colors that made me sigh when it came out and I'd only ever known one person that had a washer and dryer in this color.   I'd seen quite a few of the Toast colored machines, mostly Kenmores but the Platinum seemed to be much more rare.  The mid to later 80's seemed much more of a brown and almond period.  I tried for eight years to buy that machine and finally got it a couple of years ago when they were going out of business and rescued it from the rows of machines going to the scrap yard.  They had told me over and over that it was either sold, non-working, etc.  and they wouldn't sell it.  The picture of the top (above) is when I first got it home before even wiping it down.  $50 later, it was mine and when I started going over the machine, it became more and more apparent that it had never been hooked up!   What a fun day that was.  Here is it's first-ever full load of wash:

 

 

 

[gansky1]

**sigh**  Never used.  What a surprise.  Notice that WP had already gone to the basket mounted comb-type filter.

 

[gansky1]

An very intimate money-shot, safe for work though.