Thread Number: 53085
1965 Frigidaire Imperial Washer and Dryer. |
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Post# 754286 , Reply# 1   5/1/2014 at 21:05 (3,646 days old) by sudslock1 (St Louis)   |   | |
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Here is the washer. |
Post# 754287 , Reply# 2   5/1/2014 at 21:06 (3,646 days old) by sudslock1 (St Louis)   |   | |
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Thump thump |
Post# 754288 , Reply# 3   5/1/2014 at 21:08 (3,646 days old) by ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 754289 , Reply# 4   5/1/2014 at 21:10 (3,646 days old) by classiccaprice (Hampton, Virginia)   |   | |
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Post# 754291 , Reply# 5   5/1/2014 at 21:13 (3,646 days old) by sudslock1 (St Louis)   |   | |
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My friend got them and the matching wall oven, cooktop and fridge as well. |
Post# 754298 , Reply# 7   5/1/2014 at 21:30 (3,646 days old) by sudslock1 (St Louis)   |   | |
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That is my storage unit. The cycle indicator plastic just needs some glue. Will do that when I clean up the machines. Good eye. There are two Duomatics and a Whirlpool combo in there as well. |
Post# 754300 , Reply# 8   5/1/2014 at 21:36 (3,646 days old) by hydralique (Los Angeles)   |   | |
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Turquoise is my favorite appliance color and it really doesn't get better than these. |
Post# 754308 , Reply# 9   5/1/2014 at 22:27 (3,646 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Post# 754319 , Reply# 10   5/1/2014 at 23:11 (3,646 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Post# 754326 , Reply# 11   5/1/2014 at 23:46 (3,646 days old) by retropia ()   |   | |
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That set pretty much checks all of the check boxes! Pretty color? Check. Matched set? Check. Lovely design? Check. Good condition? Check. Lots of buttons and knobs? Check.
And on and on....
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Post# 754328 , Reply# 12   5/2/2014 at 00:01 (3,646 days old) by oldskool (Kansas City, MO)   |   | |
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Congratulations on a fabulous acquisition! Just beautiful. My, my, my! |
Post# 754330 , Reply# 13   5/2/2014 at 00:15 (3,646 days old) by revvinkevin (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land)   |   | |
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Post# 754331 , Reply# 14   5/2/2014 at 00:21 (3,646 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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That's a very nice set! I wish I could grab such nice machines in that color! The mid-1960's Custom Imperial machines are my favorites. And yours happen to be in my favorite color too! Did you take more pics of the cooktop, the oven and the fridge? I'd be curious to see them! The parts I see of the cooktop and the fridge make them older than your 1965 laundry appliances.
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Post# 754370 , Reply# 15   5/2/2014 at 08:51 (3,645 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA)   |   | |
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Post# 754376 , Reply# 16   5/2/2014 at 10:13 (3,645 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA)   |   | |
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Post# 754420 , Reply# 17   5/2/2014 at 13:05 (3,645 days old) by stainfighter (Columbia, SC)   |   | |
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Post# 754428 , Reply# 18   5/2/2014 at 13:19 (3,645 days old) by hippiedoll ( arizona )   |   | |
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Post# 754577 , Reply# 19   5/2/2014 at 21:50 (3,645 days old) by dnastrau (Lords Valley, PA)   |   | |
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Great find! Wasn't '65 about the end of the line for turquoise? |
Post# 754605 , Reply# 20   5/2/2014 at 23:41 (3,645 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 754611 , Reply# 21   5/3/2014 at 00:15 (3,645 days old) by bigalsf (Salt Lake City)   |   | |
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Great find! Those really look nice. Is that a drawer style dispenser in the control panel? |
Post# 754612 , Reply# 22   5/3/2014 at 00:21 (3,645 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 754630 , Reply# 23   5/3/2014 at 04:23 (3,645 days old) by laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii)   |   | |
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Post# 754661 , Reply# 24   5/3/2014 at 08:32 (3,645 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 754662 , Reply# 25   5/3/2014 at 08:37 (3,645 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Frigidaire made two different levels of Custom Imperials this year, we have the less expensive turquoise CI set, they left off the dispensers on the washer and the sprinkler on the dryer, they also skipped the chrome top and front edge cabinet trim on both machines and the full porclean cabinet on the dryer. But otherwise they are the same in cycles and other features.
Very cool set these were diffidently over the top- TOL machines, these were designed to compete head-on with MTs new 906s, Sears LKMs, WPs Mark 12s and of coerce GEs cool washers and dryers with the roll over bar timers. Other manufactures also had some neat TOL machines but I think that these were the greatest of them. A lot of the credit for these great American machines came from having a young Democratic President who encouraged Americans to be the best, this was truly a great time in history to grow up for millions of us baby boomers. John L. |
Post# 754711 , Reply# 26   5/3/2014 at 13:37 (3,644 days old) by syndets2000 (Nanjemoy, MD)   |   | |
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...a mid line 65 custom washer in yellow....i never played with it and I would love t make room, so who ever wants it mail me at JJFlap@aol.com |
Post# 754729 , Reply# 27   5/3/2014 at 15:06 (3,644 days old) by jocks54 (Danbury Connecticut)   |   | |
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Just a real beautiful set. WOW! What a find!!!!!!!!!! |
Post# 754826 , Reply# 28   5/4/2014 at 03:50 (3,644 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Bob, Both the vented (Gas and Electric) and the non-vented Filtrator were identified as "Flowing Heat". My DDF-64 and DCIF-65 Filtrator dryers say so. I guess Frigidaire wanted buyers to know that the new type of Filtrator dryers (since 1961) was an air-flow model much like the Frost-Proof refrigerators of the time were "Flowing Cold" as they had a circulating fan.
My 1963 refrigerator.
The 1965 Filtrator dryer I got from John L. showing the same "Flowing-heat" on it's sprinkler door.
The sprinkler door is hinged at the top:
My DDF-64 non-vented Filtrator dryer also says "flowing-heat". |
Post# 754827 , Reply# 29   5/4/2014 at 04:01 (3,644 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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John, the "two levels" of Custom Imperial washer and dryers were the following year (1966). The 1966 WCIAK and DCIAK you have are the equivalent of the 1965 WI-65 and DI-65. In 1966, the dryer added the electronic sensor and the push button door opener was replaced by a door handle but they were about the same otherwise.
There were variations of the 1965 Custom Imperial washers and dryers offered but these were suds-return vs non suds-return for the washer and non-vented electric, vented electric and gas for the dryer but they all had the dispenser doors, translucent plastic consoles and cabinet chrome trim strips.
There were two Imperial washers offered in the US in 1965, the WIA-65 and WI-65. Both models had fluorescent lighted controls but aluminum control panels rather than plastic. The WIA-65 didn't have any pushbuttons, lacked the "extra rinse" feature and Rapidry 1000 spin that the WI-65 and WCI-65 had. The two versions of the Imperial offered for 1966 were lacking the fluorescent lighted control panel of the previous year's models and had incandescent lights for their timers like the previous year's Custom Deluxe. One model had the Rapidry 1000 and the automatic soak advance (the one you also have at the museum in white)-WIK, and another model lacking both features WIAK.
This is a partial view of your 1966 WIK. This post was last edited 05/04/2014 at 04:55 |