Vintage/Retro Refrigerators - CL finds

[ovrphil]

Another Gibson: Fridge for Sale - $180 OBO - (Pleasant Vall

http://ventura.craigslist.org/atq/4728631493.html

 

[ovrphil]

Vintage Amana 18 fridge pieces (nob hill)

is this avocado or other green color?

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/zip/4791217740.html

 

[ovrphil]

Vintage Early 1960s fridge - $100 (grass valley)

http://goldcountry.craigslist.org/atq/4761950884.html

 

[moparguy]

Sandy, the green Amana post says that they were hoping that someone may want the interior pieces... are those parts that you may want to stock for future use when you get your Amana fridge?

 

[ovrphil]

Vintage Kenmore Wood Grain Refrigerator - $100 (Piqua)

Used for the past 6 years and upgraded. I wonder if they upgraded to figured Bubinga or Cherry?

http://dayton.craigslist.org/app/4814006084.html

 

[appnut]

That Kenmore fridge would be absolutely beautiful in a kitchen that matched that perfectly!!!  Custom ZubZero at a middle class price. 

 

[polkanut]

Hey, that's our basement fridge!

<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">The Frigidaire pictured in reply #32 is exactly like our basement fridge.  We bought it in 1998 with the express purpose of being a 2nd fridge.  We bought it at an estate sale for $30.  Ours was bought new approx. 1972.  It is a non self-defrost model, and is also a Cycla-Matic.  A very quiet unit.  Ours has one large turquoise metal crisper drawer across the bottom.</span>

 

<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">The seller needs to do some homework.  Just because it's older doesn't necessarily mean it's from the "early 1960's". lol</span>

 

[ovrphil]

Antique 1956 Foodarama refrigerator - $4000 (Shelby)

been around and probably will be around a lot longer at that price, but it looks like new

http://greenville.craigslist.org/atq/4748676188.html

 

[ovrphil]

? brand - Refrigerator 1960's - $50 (Wake Forest)

restoration there for sure, but nice color

http://raleigh.craigslist.org/hsh/4775954453.html

 

[ovrphil]

Vintage 1950s Westinghouse refrigerator, antique 50s fridge

Vintage 1950s Westinghouse refrigerator, antique 50s fridge - $150 (Tullahoma)

http://nashville.craigslist.org/app/4814973758.html

 

[bluejay]

The fridge in reply #38 is a GE.

 

[ovrphil]

Vintage Westinghouse Fridge - Retro - $499 (Brighton)

http://lansing.craigslist.org/atq/4799710717.html

 

[ovrphil]

VINTAGE 1940'S LEONARD (NASH KELVINATOR) FRIDGE - $250 (

the handle and Leonard logo is really vintage old car, isn't it?

 

[ovrphil]

1938 vintage GE fridge - $550 (folkston)

reaching way back to art deco era

http://jacksonville.craigslist.org/atq/4746611265.html

 

[ovrphil]

Westinghouse refrigerator focus: Vintage stove & refrigerat

Not sure what's up with the colors there, painted or just the photo quality….but I tried to adjust the photo to black and white. One day, a good photograph will be idiot proof - maybe?

http://pennstate.craigslist.org/atq/4818525413.html

 

[ovrphil]

Vintage (GE?) Refrigerator - $30

http://southjersey.craigslist.org/app/4821566857.html

 

[rp2813]

Geez.  Just seeing one of these things show up west of the Mississippi would keep me hopeful, but nooooooo!

 

$30 price and hinges on the right adds insult to injury.

 

[ovrphil]

A History of "Thinking of Ralph"

There has been a few GE's after searching for years (ok, one year) that were calling his name. As winter descends and summer peaks in Australia, the search for GE's that have migrated with other rare birds, west of the Rockies, goes on. and on.

 

[Ultramatic]

 

 

What a great price! I'd take it for parts but it's just too nice.

 

[ovrphil]

Nice 1950' TruCold Sub Zero Vintage Freezer 22 Cubic Ft

again, pricey

http://oklahomacity.craigslist.org/app/4858493064.html

 

[rp2813]

That Tru-Cold has surfaced before.   Custom paint or not, they'll never get $1,000 for it.

 

The two-tone paint is an exact replica of the interior scheme on the '57 Lincoln Premiere we had when I was a kid.

 

[ovrphil]

Amana side by side fridge/freezer - $100

Dandemodsandy -this looks like the one you spoke about (photo of the one you posted on left and the one for sale on right)

http://desmoines.craigslist.org/app/4803844488.html

 

[ovrphil]

Sandy - another ? Amana Refrigerator for sale - $130 (northw

Looks newer - 22 ft3..and well-cared for.

http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwc/app/4836367039.html

 

[danemodsandy]

The Amana 22's:

Those are both really nice fridges! Really beautiful. I had seen the one in Des Moines, but not the Chicago one.

If running cost were no object, I might be interested, but these are '70s fridges, not terribly efficient by today's standards. John combo52 figures that one would cost about $40 a month to run nowadays.

Since I'm single, I feel that I really need to set my sights on a smaller box. The Amana 13 would be ideal for my actual needs, though the 16 would also be okay. Both of those are top-mount models.

I hugely appreciate the leads on these 22s.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

The Fridge in:

<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Post# 805790 , Reply# 52 looks the best!

Big, clean, and even Ice Making!  Oh, and the Wine Bottle Holder is the real grabber!
</span></span>

 

 

<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">-- Dave</span></span>

 

[ovrphil]

DAve /Sandy - #52 got my vote. But at ~$40/month (depending on what electrical charges by state), that's just under what we're charged for water. Must be the insulation and a hungry compressor. Can one retro-fit a more efficient compressor? I'm talking about removing a 427 V-8 and dropping in a smaller more efficient engine only refrigerator-talk. That would be a labor of love execution of hell, maybe? lol.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

New COMP--Look: NO FREON!!!! (Or CFC's)

I once saw on TV, some documentary on a refrigerator compressor that is actually a BALL that refrigerates using magnetic properties...

 

The narrator for this documentary is even in a junkyard behind a GE fridge w/ an external condenser saying this device eliminates the need for it, as well as the evaporator (and tosses away each part including the native freon-utilizing--and CFC-emitting--"old school" compressor)...

 

The doc' ends w/ the military actually wanting this particular compressor design & likely to be the first clients for it, just due to it potentially withstanding its obviously heavy-duty use...!

 

 

-- Dave

 

[ovrphil]

Retro-fitting dreams

I wouldn't even attempt(if I knew electrical and refrigeration engineering enough) to try and retrofit some of the "vintage" fridge's, but whatever you saw sounds like an external adaptation that you'd hide or put on top of the fridge(like the old GE's compressor's on top).