My Thermador was beautiful on the outside and I loved how the the sound of the door latch was reminiscent of a '60s luxury car.   If only it drove like one too.  In that regard, it was more along the lines of a Pinto or Vega with a shot muffler.

These are still fun machines, though.  Daily drivers, not so much IMO.

I'm looking forward to pictures.

Also a close-up of the panel lights in the middle.  And congratulations!!!

I know these machines have a terrible reputation but I'd still have one just to play with.  I've always thought the curled tines on the racks were cool.  Our next door neighbor had this model and she hated it.  From what I recall she kept it for a few years and replaced it.  I remember her telling my Mom it spent more time not running that it did running.

I used to baby sit for them and play with it as best I could without getting ratted out by the kids for spending all my time in the kitchen playing with the dishwasher.  LOL.

I hope you have some fun with it, better yet I hope you get it running and can use it to actually do some dishes.

Is this the kind that had the steam generator built in it?  I remember seeing an advert for some brand with it in Southern Accents or Architectural Digest when I worked in the library back in high school.

It was mentioned in the archived thread Eddie linked to above that the Thundering Thermador was the best at drying of any dishwasher I had ever used. 

That highly crammed and piggy-backed load pictured in the thread came out sparkling, but that turned out to be the exception rather than the rule.  I still blame Dave's bipolar sister for misuse while I was gone for a long weekend.  After that, glassware and utensils came out streaked and spotty, and I was re-washing things by hand.  I gave up on it after finding a low-use ISE Classic Supreme version of a 22 series KitchenAid.

If only the Thermador washed as well as it dried, and soundproofing wasn't an exercise in futility.

I seem to recall Mark Harmon had two of these in his kitchen when they were being marketed and he loved them an he threw everything at it.  And he was very demanding of his dishwashers.  

Bob, I think Mark was in the market for a 4600 model last time he showed up on the board here.  Either that or whatever the TOL steam model was.

Eddie and Tom, I'm dealing with one of those trophy kitchens right now.  Gaggenau Garbage for stove top and range, both oddball sizes that aren't easily replaced.  No real cook in his or her right mind would ever have opted for such junk.

I won't complain about this sort of wastefully conspicuous consumption on a local level, though.  I've found a couple of Miele dishwashers for cheap as a result of someone with far too much money ripping out a perfectly good modern kitchen to realize their own misguided concept instead.  One would think the ReStores in this area to be bursting at the seams with Gagge-no-bueno crap as well, but I can't recall ever seeing any.