| Thread Number: 15044 How Late Did Maytag Make Yellow? |
Post# 254513-12/16/2007-13:34 ||| danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apartment 7-E) |
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Does anyone know? Was this confined to the "Halo from Hell" generation, or was yellow continued into the next, final generation of centre-dial machines?
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Post# 254516-12/16/2007-13:58 ||| goatfarmer (South Bend, the home of Champions!) |
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I know some of the first series of 06 machines were available in yellow. |
Post# 254707-12/17/2007-13:05 ||| danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apartment 7-E) |
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Kenny:
Thanks! I'm beginning to thing there is nothing you don't know about 'Tags. |
Post# 254758-12/17/2007-16:42 ||| gansky1 (The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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1966
Wouldn't this washer be beautiful in Yellow - or Turquoise??
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Post# 254772-12/17/2007-17:53 ||| maytagmike (BURLINGTON, VT) |
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Maytag Yellow
Maytag called their yellow Sunshine Yellow and it ran untill the mis 60's |
Post# 254845-12/17/2007-22:04 ||| danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apartment 7-E) |
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Greg!
Whaddya tryin' to do- drive me to tears, LOL?
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Post# 254932-12/18/2007-06:27 ||| appliguy (Vienna Va.) |
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According to the 1966 Maytag brochure RickR downloaded last year
You had a choice of Spanish Avacodo, Cordoba Copper and Castillian Yellow. For this reason I surmise 2 things.
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Post# 254959-12/18/2007-08:12 ||| bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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GE's Harvest", by default, became Harvest Gold because, like all the other colors of that era, it was "edged" and I imagine salesmen didn't note the distinction. Appliance manufacturers must have given in to the reality that customers might not necessarily buy all their machines from one brand and thus it was better to coordinate colors with other brands for replacement sales, etc. In the late seventies GE replaced their "Harvest" with "Harvest Wheat" which was NOT edged and was looking ahead to the set of colors that would edge out "Coppertone" and the ill-conceived "Avocado". In my opinion, GE should have stayed with its color set of the late fifties. But, again, no one ever listens to me. ![]() |
Post# 254999-12/18/2007-12:50 ||| danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apartment 7-E) |
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Hmmm...
"You had a choice of Spanish Avacodo, Cordoba Copper and Castillian Yellow."
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Post# 255005-12/18/2007-13:33 ||| cadman (Cedar Falls, IA) |
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No pink...
....but still...yellow and turquoise! Does anyone in the club have a Maytag '06 in either of these early colors? I've never seen one "in person". |
Post# 255016-12/18/2007-14:51 ||| goatfarmer (South Bend, the home of Champions!) |
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I have the gas access door to an '06 Maytag, in yellow (not gold). That's as close as I come.
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Post# 255026-12/18/2007-15:23 ||| bobbyderegis (Boston) |
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The 08 series was the last of the harvest gold Maytags, 1979.
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Post# 255043-12/18/2007-17:13 ||| appliguy (Vienna Va.) |
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Maytag still offered harvest gold in the 10 series Bobby
A neighbor of mine across the street bought one that color in 1982 I believe it was a DE 310 and the neighbor next door to her got the same dryer at the same time but hers was a white DG310 (menaing it was gas fired). PAT COFFEY |
Post# 255044-12/18/2007-17:35 ||| bobbyderegis (Boston) |
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Pat, I stand corrected. It seems to my memory that harvest gold was not listed in the 10 series catalogue, but I am getting more flakey every day. I know for a fact that the 12 series did not offer gold.
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Post# 255270-12/19/2007-17:50 ||| goatfarmer (South Bend, the home of Champions!) |
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I've seen 10 series in HG, not very often, but there are a few out there..... |
Post# 255286-12/19/2007-19:25 ||| danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apartment 7-E) |
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Harvest, Schmarvest...
Harvest and yellow are definitely two different things, so far as I'm concerned.
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