Kenny -
Love the dryer - it matches my mother's second Kenmore. I have only come across a few of these. A white electric model would be something I'd go after big-time.
The green on that dryer does look very "rich", however I suspect its the camera because the dryer looks very original, the shading looks very factory, and as can be seen on the door, it varies in thickness as compared to the panels above and below. I think in 1975 the shading was done away with, and the top was a darker green than the main cabinet.
This is a 1974 Kenmore 60-series dryer, and Ralph is correct, its of the same lineage as the 1974 and 1975 Kenmore 70-series machines which had the large capacity quiet pak configurations and the gold Penta-Swirls. This is the very first full-line large capacity models for Kenmore, meaning they had dryers to match. Previously, from 1967-1973 there were about 5 specialty large capacity washers, but no perfectly matching dryers. One of the '73s matched a 1972 standard cap dryer but they were never marketed together that I've seen.
This 60-series dryer, Ralph's Mom's seventy, the LK (the final garage door models), and a basic 200 series redefined the future for capacity at Kenmore, and within only a couple short years, the 18-gallon fill original capacity which had been so successful for Kenmore since the 1950s amounted to only a small portion of sales. By 1981 they were gone at Kenmore altogether. Incidentally, Kenny's reply number three above is a standard capacity washer, being a 1977 or 1978 80-series. VERY unusual by 1977/1978, especially in TOL for the standard tub models.
This 1974 dryer had a cool feature - being available in white, gold, avocado, and coppertone, the end caps on the console were color coordinated, as you can see on this dryer, they're a puky flu colored green. White models had ivory caps,which like to yellow with age. This must have been something Sears wanted to discontinue as the 1975 versions all had walnut brown end caps, regardless of cabinet color.
Here's a picture of a 1975 500 series dryer so you can see the shading differences.
Gordon
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