I'd love to see pics of your O'Keefe & Merrit wall oven and cooktop!!!

Kansas City for $175

lawrence

$175.00? For a dead 'fridge?  If that $25.00 "thermistor" fixes it, why doesn't he fix it?

The only way you'll get the swing-out shelving is with an early '60s GE (Norge did copy this, but I'm sure they weren't anywhere near as common and GEs were). 

I've been on the hunt for a similar GE hinged on the right for quite a while, and I'm not even that particular about the color.  You probably have a better chance of finding what you want in L.A. than I do in the Bay Area.

I might be heading down to my sister's next month (Eagle Rock/Glassell Park) so maybe we'll buzz over to Savon in NoHo.

That's the smaller model with a spinning single crisper and (I think) hot gas defrost system.   I'd say it's +/- 1962.  The larger size (wider and taller) models have two crisper drawers. 

If the crisper parts are missing, that's a deal breaker.  They don't say whether it's in proper operating condition either.  For $200, it better be, but since it's missing parts they'll need to come way down in price.

It's GE, it's Coppertone, but it's not a bottom mount and it's not frostless.  Nevertheless.....

$350 in Dallas

lawrence

uncleaned is right! If I liked it, and it worked, maybe $75.00

smaller one.

The Gibson is in really nice shape and would be fine until the ideal GE shows up.  It appears to be missing the grille across the bottom front, and a replacement will be tough to find.

$150 isn't a bad asking price based on the excellent condition, but shipping from NJ is going to make that cost skyrocket.  I don't think it's worth the total expense to get something that isn't your first choice.

Another thing you can't check because it's on the opposite coast is the clearance between the door bottom and the floor.  On a lot of top freezer types, that clearance is so tight that the door hits my shoe and I have to step out of the way.  Really annoying.  And with that usually goes crisper drawers that are back-breaking to reach.

I would hold out for the right bottom freezer GE to come along and in the meantime put any old fridge in there that will fit until you find what you want.

Is more likley to work than a 60s GE bottom freezer ref, BUT is a cheaper, noisy poorly built ref, differently not worth moving across the country.

John L.

John pointed out something I had intended, but forgot, to mention.  Gibson appliances from that period were game show give-aways, so the shipping scenario makes even less sense, even if the fridge is still operating fine.

Once you get a big, full-featured GE with a butter conditioner, it will have been well worth the wait. 

You might want to consider any color, then have a local custom paint & body shop recreate the coppertone including the shaded edges.

Regarding the dishwasher, there's a recent thread with pictures of a modern (perhaps Bosch) dishwasher that was outfitted with the entire front panel from the vintage GE that it had replaced.  I think this was relatively easy to accomplish because the new machine had the controls on the top edge of the door.  I'll try to locate it.

Is a 1964 model, it is 30 1/2 " wide, the 34" wide models are bigger of course, I like the next generation of these a little better, 1965-7 where they got away from the evaporator coils on the ceiling of the ref section like they did from the start of the 34" wide models, also the bigger models had the more desirable foam insulation and actually used less power.

John L.

I agree that the coils up top interfere with useful storage space for tall items.

The wider model has two crisper drawers instead of the 30" model's single demi-lune that spins.

Maybe time is on your side and one of these with a semi-automatic ice maker and its trays will show up. 

How about an Admiral?

These were very good refs and about the only other vintage ref that is worth still having today other than 1960 and later GE refs.

This one is Frostless in both the ref and freezer sections.

The only bad thing about using this or the old GE you are looking for is they both use 3-4 times as much power as a new ref . You can reduce the power consumption a good deal by replacing both fan motors with new ECM motors and changing the defrost timer from twice a day to twice a week, and if it is dry enough where you live you might be able to disconnect the electric anti-condensation heater around the freezer door.

John

That dishwasher is beautiful!  As if it just came out of the box.  And talk about simple to operate...

If you're replacing an existing dishwasher, and that dishwasher has any kind of sound insulation, you might consider robbing the insulation and wrapping the GE before you slide it in place.  It might make this GE a little less noisy when running.

lawrence