Whirlpool colors

[supersurgilator]

Harvest gold is like my favorite vintage machine color and I have noticed that not many BD Whirlpool's were ever harvest gold. I think I may have seen 2 of them total. Nothing like Maytags where you see quite a few harvest ones running around.

 

[supremewhirlpol]

Bruce,
I see HG Whirlpool BD's here and there, most white, a few almond, and very little coppertone machines.

 

[swestoyz]

Bruce - I snapped some photos of an odd bird I saw a few years ago behind Menards -->

 

[swestoyz]

Control close-up.

The machine was too rusty for me to drag home.

 

[swestoyz]

Silver Anniversary -

I guess that would make this a 1972 Whirlpool?

 

[swestoyz]

Money Shot -

 

[supremewhirlpol]

OH wow! I'm looking for one of those with the console light. I would say that that machine was heavily used. Silver Anniversary!? Never seen that. Can someone please fill me in on the Silver Anniversary series?

 

[supersurgilator]

Wow that was a really cool machine. I've seen pics of a couple of the Silver Anniversary models but don't know anything about them.

 

[70series]

Odd bird:

I would say that it is earlier than 1972 only because it looks like it has a mercury lid switch, which was last seen in 1970 models; at least in Kenmores. Before the money shot I would have pegged this as a 1975 large capacity model which one of my friends had. Nothing makes a better match than that Surgilator with that style filter.

Have a good one,
James

 

[DADoES]

 
Not a mercury lid switch. Notice the little actuator in the rear edge of the lid, a little right of center.

Looks to be an LAA model, 1974-1975.

 

[thomasortega]

It's exactly like a Brastemp "Gran Luxo"

To turn it into a Brastemp one just needs to replace the panel, the lid handle (Brastemp has nothing written on it) and the agitator cap.

 

[combo52]

Silver Anniversary

The silver anniversary marking appeared on the washer consoles in 1974 marking the 25th year of making automatic washers they started in 1949. I was disappointed when they did not do this again for thier 50th anniversary in 1999.

 

[supremewhirlpol]

1999? Is that the year in which Whirlpool launched the Whirlpool Gold series for the higher end models? I think I had a catalog with those machines and even the last CleanTouch model.