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Wow, quite a few gems seem to be surfacing lately...

What a beauty, I LOVE the blue speckled tub! Didn't realize AMPs had these. What year are we talking about here?

I do know the first thing it will need when going back into service is a good lubrication of the spin collar...no doubt it's a little sticky after 50 or so years of non-use!
 
OHMYGOODNESS! What a beauty!!

That looks like one of Maytag's first timed fill machines. No mercury switch inside the lid.

Solid tub?

I don't think I've ever seen one like this.

Incredible ... go team, go!! :-)
 
Hey Geoff -

The picture is a bit deceiving - the blue wash basket does have the holes, and it will have the outer 'wash' tub bolted to the inner wash tub - creating the solid tub affect - the same as your 101. The outer wash tub has the transmission housing casted into the bottom of it. I *think* the A4MP is a timed fill machine as well, with the wringer post agitator - but I'm not sure if the A4MP has a blue wash tub. I remember Tom talking about these along time ago - the fact that you can have the lid open during the whole operation of the machine - no other AMP can do that since they measure the water level with the lid even if you defeat the lid switch.

This really is another amazing find - and you are right Austin - I bet you are an expert by now on the subject of the spin collar!

Ben
 
New on Crate

Can we really believe the spate of "new" vintage appliances that are turning up? Why now and why so many? I wish I didn't feel the need to question so many things in life, I am sure I would enjoy it more if I could accept more things in life at face value.
Kelly
 
Thanks, Ben! WOW ... the lid could stay up during the entire operation? What was Maytag thinking? :-)

It's hard to believe it has just been sitting there all of this time; unused.

It is truly an amazing find.

I remember Austin with the spin collar on his 101P (I think), too. That little "tab".
 
ITs Like 2 hours from me... Ok, so i bid $185.00, but still did not crack the reserve... I can not afford more than $185 but i'd still love to have it... Ughh.. Is it really worth like $300 or $400???
 
OH BOY!

I really want that maytag, but if 185.00 didnt crack the reserve, then they are trying to get rich off of it. too bad. I hope somebody has the ransome to save it. Don
 
I agree. To me, it would be worth $150-200 at the very MOST, and nothing more. It never ceases to amaze me what outrageous prices some sellers ask for their "precious gems" (HARDLY).
 
I paid more

I found my AMP locally, in excellent, basically unused since 1982 condition. I negotiated briefly with the owner, the local Maytag dealer. I paid $500. I know that sounds like a lot, but it was available and no shipping was involved. I would gladly pay that for a reliable Unimatic machine. But, I would also like machines for less. Everytime I see a Unimatic available, it is so far away and I know the shipping will be about $700. So that limits how much I would want to spend.

I think if it's a machine you want, and in excellent shape, no work involved the price could be higher than $200.

Now that I have admitted how much I paid, I sure as heck would like to see some prices others have paid for machines that weren't on E-BAY. Even there sometimes we don't know how much things go for.

Martin
 
I just looked up the date and I think I got it right ... April 1955.

It almost looks like this is the start to the Highlander series. You know ... timed fill, different agitator.

Does anyone know when Maytag changed the cabinet style of these machines? Wasn't it around 1956? I know that in 1954/1955, they were making the 101P.

I wonder how many different models they had at this time.
 
Reserve price of NOS Maytag

I decided to be assertive and ask the seller if she were to name a set price, what it would be, even though at this time about the only washer I was consider shipping across country would be my must-have dream machine, the 1957/58 orange-dialed GE Filter-Flo just like my maternal grandparents had... and the seller emailed me back and told me she would consider selling for... actually, it might be fun for folks to place their "guessing bets" as to what she wanted. And, I hope everybody is sitting down at such time as I tell the quoted price -- and I might add, even if the NOS Maytag were the orange-dial GE that I want so much, I would probably have to pass due to the price. Hint on the Maytag price: That pink Maytag pair in Florida would be a bargain at $2000 by comparison.
 
I'd guess $2500 is the reserve price set on this MIB May

Oh, I was thinking around $3000-4500. Anything above $400-500 is just RIDICULOUS. First of all, it's an AMP for crying out loud! Yes, they are fun machines, but they're not Kelvinators, Philcos, or even Frigidaires. Nothing particularly special, much less rare. Not to mention they can be quite temperamental and frustrating to work on at times; no doubt this will need some work to get going again.

Well, all I have to say to the seller is "Best of luck to you!" It will probably end up being unused for an additional 40 or so years, truth be known!
 
And the winner is...

The seller said she wants $1500, and my hair stood on end as Linus Van Pelt's used to do in the PEANUTS comic strip. I wish I'd been able to keep the 1949 Maytag automatic I bought from the local dealership during the 1974 Maytag contest in which it attempted to find the oldest still-functioning Maytag automatic washer; I asked the local dealer if I could buy the 1949 automatic on display, and he said, "Sure, why not." I think I had to give it up during a move or some such thing. Anyway, I wonder how many books of the old S&H Green or Blue Chip Stamps it would take to snag the $1500 Maytag.
 
Speaking of Maytags for stamps...

It dawns on me, I have a 1966 issue of the S&H Green Stamps catalog somewhere in my bookcase, and it was possible to buy the new 1966-styling Maytag washer and or dryer for stamps. I'll have to see how many books it took to get either machine... and how many of us are willing to admit we remember helping paste those Blue or Green stamps into the books, trying to get the stamps just damp enough with the sponge to moisten the glue and not drop the sheet of stamps and have it stick to the kitchen table instead of the book page, and how annoying the little two-or-three-stamp groups from the smaller purchases were to deal with because they only filled up a very small portion of a page?
 
I wonder if they'll post about it here?

i see who won. i somehow doubt they will post about it here, as this winning ebayer never seems to post on the vacuum site.
 
Well I do know who it is, but I was trying to avoid *that* insinuation ;-)

Most likely this washer will be stored with the rest of the vacuums in the storage silos, never to see the light of day again. At least it's saved though.
 

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