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Thread Number: 16964
Model year on this Lady ? |
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Post# 279552 , Reply# 1 5/12/2008 at 06:55 (5,826 days old) by unimatic1140  (Minneapolis) |
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Nice Find | ||
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Post# 279735 , Reply# 2 5/12/2008 at 21:00 (5,826 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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| Post# 279738 , Reply# 3 5/12/2008 at 21:10 (5,826 days old) by qsd-dan (West) | ||
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Post# 279758 , Reply# 5 5/12/2008 at 22:37 (5,826 days old) by kenmoreguy64 (Charlotte, NC) |
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I TOTALY agree with Charles
I don't know why, but the '63 Lady seems to have been everywhere at one point. I have probably come across 12 or more in my life, including three or four that friend's moms had. One mom had TWO of them at once (they had 6 kids). In all this time though I have seen ONE lowly 62 model, and I've never seen a '64 other than the picture on here. Then there seems to be a half-bazillion '65 Lady Ks. I think there are two or three '63s that can be seen on the farm... The '62 Lady K is not incredibly different than the '63...the '63 being less "cluttered" mostly. The timer dial was smaller in diameter though in the same place, and the eight buttons were also in the same place, though they were white, with the corresponding letters with colored surrouonds that match the explanation from the lighted side of the panel (meaning if 'A' was aqua on the left panel, it was aqua on the button too). It did say "AUTOMATIC WASHER" in classic script above the timer dial I think. As I said, I only have seen one of those....it was a neighbor's and it had bearing chatter that was only bested by my mother's 1961 model 70. You could hear either one of them outside when they were spinning..... | ||
| Post# 279813 , Reply# 6 5/13/2008 at 09:45 (5,825 days old) by drewz (Alexandria, Virginia) | ||
This 1963 Lady is one of my favorites but, I also love the (1963,I think not sure) "70" model, instead of the glass panel backlit (Lady)just had a chrome front but, it had the water level & temp controls in those lighted ovals, with the round center control also backlit. Guess there was not enough room to backlight the center control on the Lady?
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Post# 279905 , Reply# 7 5/13/2008 at 17:14 (5,825 days old) by kenmoreguy64 (Charlotte, NC) |
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Drewz....funny about the console lighting
There were a bunch of Kenmores in the neighborhood I grew up in. In addition to my Mother's '61 model 70, there was a '62 Lady K, a '63 model 70 just like you describe, a '63 model 60, a '64 model 70 and a '67 model 70, just to mention some - all at friends houses. I was able to sneak a lot of views of all of them (later they knew what I was doing and one lady would save laundry for when I was over! lol). I didn't know that any of those machines had panel lights until later on - none of them. I worked on a '67 model 70 back in the 90s and fully restored it, including the dial light and heat shield which I was surprised to find. From what I can tell and have learned here, the 1963 70 series was lighted like you said, and so was my mother's - I had no idea. The '62 Lady was too, but all the bulbs had burned out and none of the moms bothered to have them fixed. The only machine that I'm not sure of is the 63 60-series (it looked like the 70 but had turqoise knob surrounds) which I am guessing was not lighted. It was the only one of the batch not to have a Roto-swirl. There is at least one example of each (the '63 60-series and 70-series) at the farm, for grins. | ||
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Post# 279925 , Reply# 8 5/13/2008 at 18:28 (5,825 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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63 "70" series | ||
| Post# 279937 , Reply# 9 5/13/2008 at 19:47 (5,825 days old) by stainfighter (Columbia, SC) | ||
think part of that panel is lighted... | ||
| Post# 280045 , Reply# 11 5/14/2008 at 10:02 (5,824 days old) by drewz (Alexandria, Virginia) | ||
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