You got it Patrick!

There still in my garage waiting for minor repairs and cleaning (that I hope should be done later today!).

They were (almost!) a local find...

Sweet!

WOW Phil I am glad you got these cool machines, I too have long considered this to be GM-Frigidaires best styling effort ever. Even though they were a little controversial and very unconventional I think it took real guts for GM to actually bring these to market, normally something like this would have come from a smaller company like Chrysler or maybe even American Motors. I also have a white pair of these in the collection, and I hear someone up in your direction is hording to only know Charcoal pair of these neat machines.

Phil you may have the only REAL Canadian pair of these, on my washer the model # is WI-57, I wounder if the C  in your washers model # was for the Canadian model, by the next year Frigidaire added the word Custom in the name of their TOL appliances, WCI-58, for washer Custom Imperial for example. I always thought it was funny when we started seeing Chevy Pick-Up trucks in the 1970s with names on them like Custom Deluxe as it always made me think of an appliance not the butch image that one would expect on a PU truck.

1957 is the first year of Frigidaire appliances I really like (I really like the 1957 ranges) but control towers aeren't my favorites (I really like the '65-66 Rollermatic, the 1959-64 Multimatics) and of course, the Custom Imperial 1958 models! But now that I look at mine closely, I have to say they impress me more than they used to!

I am heading up there to slap you!!  Then we can talk trades.... LOL

Phil, I have total empathy. This is the machine I grew up with, always coveting neighbor Tom's Whirlpool instead. I thought the tower looked so ungainly, like a square-headed robot. The grass being greener on the other side, every other washer encountered was preferred to the Tower. I just didn't appreciate it. When it was replaced by a Custom Deluxe Copper Rollermatic, I was in heaven. Seeing that nasty old robot carted away on a stretcher was a happy day.

Only through peer pressure, advancing age, and nostalgia have I come to genuflect before the almighty Tower, but only if the color is rare: charcoal, gold, purple, pink, and green.

Your set, though, is stunning in white, and it looks brand new. Wishing you many, many happy 1140 rmp spins.

The car is a 1967 Riviera. I do have a Wildcat too but it's a '65.

I did wash a few loads with the washer, haven't connected the dryer yet (but I tried before I bought it). All I had to replace were the bulbs in the washer's timer and I replaced 2 of the 3 drain hoses. I got a molded radiator hose that was the exact match for the one from the outer tub to the pump.

I like how the water fills with the thermostatic valves! Hot, cold, hot cold...

Jon,

I removed the agitator, removed the water bellow to see if there was anything like rubber spacers and there were none, there was not even a large lower cone support washer... And the agitator goes close to the bottom of the tub so I can't see how it could go any lower... I look under the cabinet and at the tub support, everything looks ok there too.

I guess I found what's the problem:

Greg, the porcelain inside my dryer (which is also a Canadian model - DIC-57) is gray too and that's what I expected to see in the washer. Frigidaire often used different porcelain colors on Canadian models (usually black instead of gray or blue)... The picture of Robert's WI-57 shows a blueish tub too.

Another video of the washer spinning. I had it a bit overloaded with towels but I was surprised to see the good rollover, even with the jet cone agitator.

Another difference. Phil, you said yours has the alternating hot/cold valve for warm. Ours had the mixing valve. We only had that, the alternator, on the Pulsamatics.

Really?

Here's a shot of the valve... I have recently seen very odd stuff that came from the Canadian Frigidaire factory. They quit making Rollermatic washers and matching dryers in 1970 here and they still used some parts from the mid-sixties models but with updated looks of the "N" line washers.

Its important not to compare the colors because the Canadian versions of the machines had different wash tub colors. While this tub could have been replaced, the tub in this '57 is clearly the correct version, just in a slightly different color.

Here is what I was looking for - Robert's '57 tub and agitator. Geez, talk about factory fresh. It actually has a supple look to it! It actually has a supple look to it!
That's cause I found a brand new set of gray rings for the '56 and '57 models about 15 years ago, along with a brand new cap, pulsator and detergent column. They are still totally supple today.

Show us the Insides of your Frigidaire, check out the color of Eddy's rollermatic tub in post 151757...

Fantastic information Ben! And I also just saw your email.

Can you tell me what kind of valves I have on my washer and if they're the original ones?

And they were kept by the same owner but not together. The Filtrator dryer was now matched to a Frigidaire Gallery front loader and the washer was in storage.

My Gram's 55 Pulsamatic achieved warm water by alternating hot and cold. It was hardly a thermostatic valve. Our Tower Unimatic made warm water by mixing hot and cold at the same time. I should say that ours was a Custom Deluxe. Your Custom Imperial has a thermostat to control precise water temperature. Have I got it right? How cool! There was a time when you got what you paid for and your money's worth. The Frigidaire Custom Imperial in 1957 was just such a time.

The newest version of Kitchen Aid which wears a Maytag badge has this same thermostatic hot/cold, hot/ cold flow. My mom has one and it reminds me of my Gram's Pulsamatic, so much fun to hear it and so soothing. I could sit and listen for hours--a waterfall lullaby.

My washer is an Imperial. Custom Imperial models were introduced in '58.

My WI 57 washer does have a gray tub that matches the dryer, the washer also has the more conventional thermostatic inlet valve. But you are absolutely correct Michael Frigidaire did use the cycling thermostatic inlet valves here on Pulsamatic models, these cycling valves were an early electromechanical version of the electronic thermostatic cycling valves that were reintroduced on KM DD washers in the late 1980s.

My WI 57 washer does have a gray tub that matches the dryer, the washer also has the more conventional thermostatic inlet valve. But you are absolutely correct Michael Frigidaire did use the cycling thermostatic inlet valves here on Pulsamatic models, these cycling valves were an early electromechanical version of the electronic thermostatic cycling valves that were reintroduced on KM DD washers in the late 1980s.

I just connected the dryer. The timer didn't move but a bit of WD-40 got it going again!

Even the ozone light still works!

Phil, that's an amazing set you have there!  Very rare to see the Canadian version of a Unimatic.  I will post a better photo of my rollermatic's very dark speckled tub. 

Wow, Phil, they are just beautiful!  I am so glad the dryer timer issue was an easy fix - the dials all lit up are so 'space age'! 

I am so glad you were able to save them!!

Looking forward to getting to see them in person soon, too.