These were good, reliable refrigerators.  My mom's 1975 version was still running when we unloaded it in 2008.  The only repairs it ever needed were a new condenser fan and a compressor relay.

I wonder if the grille on the subject fridge has always been white or if it was silver originally.

I love the soft & hard butter feature.  I don't know why it disappeared.  I'm hoping to find a vintage BF GE Combination with soft & hard one of these days.   I would not be surprised to find  the Koreans are offering it again like it's something new and creative.  

Just you wait.  It's only a matter of (very little) time, thanks to the internet of things, before butter can be controlled by a so-called "phone," or by a spy stove that runs algorithms to figure out what time breakfast, lunch and dinner should start on any given day or date.  

What is up with no defrost timer?  How can the evaporator get cold enough?  Even the 1961 Coldspot BF that lived at my sister's house had a defrost timer that ran the cycle only every eight or twelve hours.

How can the defrost heater always be on? It wouldn't cool very well that way.

I agree Kenny.  The heater and the evaporator would be trying to cancel each other out, and the heater would win.  If anything, it seems to me the opposite situation would exist, where there's no (working) timer and therefore no defrosting, except via human intervention.

"I love the soft & hard butter feature."

You bet Ralph! So do I. My vintage GE has it....can't beat spreadable butter.

Allen, LOVE your '62!