Hi ya'll, doing my weekly scan into vintage offerings  I came across something simply STUNNING!

What's that? Well...it's something you will not find  so easily in a lifetime...
Ie A Castor TL agitator (Multimatic), one of the first italian  made agitator washers and  that first came out in Italy, soon replaced by the german automatic front loaders style generally..
See my older discussions and history of washers in this country....

Couldn't believe it, really, I got blood on my head my  eye bulbs just came out....
I'd have already sent a deposit if it weren't that;
Seller won't accept bank transfer, postal, moneyt gram, doesn't have paypal...just cash at collect.
For some odd reasons doesn't want to have a courrier picking it up even if I organize everything...afraid for ignote reasons..
I can't drive to pick it up as our truck is under a long repair and Dad's Mercedes ML (the only other car in which it will fit, that we have)  is in Milan at the airport  as he left for spain for 2 weks and has keys with him...but could have a "friend" more like a simple acquintance actually,  picking it up for me the machine, at worse...but it's people I am pretty embarassed to ask this favour to...
I am afraid to get a lemon, seller states that when turned on the machine makes noise though agitator won't budge, so... it may a belt as  it may be the  transmission, and lord knows how impossible it would be find one...and I am really not into trannies rebuilding..
This makes it even more frustrating...

Though I want it, at least see it in person,  but I know someone more lucky than me will come first to this....sure...I am tied up...the damn seller won't accept anything else than cash at collect, no deposit nor anything..not sure if clumsy or just an a..hole

So what to do...pray for me folks, pray I will be able to drive down to Bergamo and see this beauty in person to check  whethere it's the belt or else, and pick this lady up and find a lovely home where to spend the rest of her life.....or at least mine in  this country.,.I am sure my family though would take care of her as she deserves...
P:S
I am damn broke also at the moment....but for this beauty I'd rather get a loan.

Very cool machine, Freddy.  I hope you can get it, also!

Very interesting machine Freddy! What does Castor mean in Italian? In French, it means Beaver!

Thank you guys  for all the kind words. I appreciate them. Love you!
I will drive to the place this weekend with my sister's  Ford Fiesta  (mine, a beaten up VW polo from 1994  is not reliable for a trip this long), as I cannot before since I work.
It's an almost 4 hrs drive back and forth, I will check underneath hopefully to spot a broken belt and not else...will check it out and  I 'll see to  give the seller a deposit, as to show I am really interested in buying it and will ask to hold it until I can arrange an actual pick up...
That's the only thing I can do at the moment....
If the seller would accept a money transfer  by distance that would make it all easier, as I could do the deposit right now....but he won't.
I am also hopeful it will be still available for this weekend....it's such a beauty to pass unnoticed...
In this moment I am having lots of other expenses also, and am quite broke... but I cannot pass it...I want it and would look great in my new laundry room, can't stop thinking about...
I hate being stuck like this.... but If it's meant to be it will be...I'll do what I can....
Though I cannot even get an ulcer because of this.....
So I need to take it easy...

Yes, Beaver is Castoro in Italian, Castor though miss the final O,  the company was founded in 1955 near Turin, By Francesco Casarin, an immigrate from Veneto, the name infact stand for Cas which the initial for the surname of the founder and Tor, for Torino, the city where it was founded.
Castor started initially to make semi-automatic washers that used the vertical basket and the baffles, like the Drean machines from Argentina as to speak, but they were rough in style,  and  very few  liked this washing action,  so after a few years in 1957,  they started making agitator automatics, this machine should be from 1957....
And they made agitator washers for some years...

Castor was sold to Zanussi in 1969, though by that time they didn't make agitator washers anymore....
This is  still the original Castor.....

Thanks for the info Freddy! 

Thank you...No, I didn't manage to go look it up, Granma had some health issues and she was hospitalized Friday10th  evening, neigbhor called us as she found her fainted in the garage ... and she was brought to the hospital (she got a bad blood leak in the guts, cause of the angiodysplasia of which she suffered before also,  and derived  anemia), so I didn't mamnage to go there....
She needed an urgent transfusion and successive surgery , and being both my dad and aunt away in that moment me and my sister had to take care of her and visit her in the hospital in the next town and stay near to her...
Had been busy.....
Ad has been removed, and it's gone, I am so sad for it...though  of course my granma is more important... she should be dismissed Friday....she had her surgery and it went allright, gonna check this eveining, my sister is there now, she says she looks better it's just still stoned by the surgery....

About the machine:
It  simply wasn't meant to be, you know when you have a feeling, I was right.... I hope that who has took it will take care of it and at least post a video of it working...
I just had this feeling...you know...it all started badly....

I knew it.....
I wrote to Diomede (vivalavatrice) last Thursday to let him know of this machine, he already knew and offered me to go up to see it togheter in the weekend, but that was the same for me, I wrote him because in case he could go up to see it before me it was better  than nothing, he's a member here and it would have been "in the family".
Gotta confess of course  I wanted  it badly for me...but I just  had this strong feeling someone else was going to grab it faster than me, given the rarity, and surely would have been someone far, and more near to the place where it was than me...  so...I decided to write him because he's a good guy,  he's not jealous of his machines at all, actually he shares all of his beauties with everyone, infact, he opened a Vintage laundromat up in Racconigi where he puts all of his machines for public use...
So if he were able to go pick it up before me I could see it and use it anyway and I knew it would have been treated as she deserves.....even though not being "mine".... if someone else was meant to have it I preferred to be him.....

Anyway..... it  all means it  just wasn't meant to be.... and as said I already felt it...
You can't just have everything you want...
Thank you all for the interest..