Wash Day the Old Fashioned Way

Here is our latest vintage find, a 1920 Dexter Speedex washing machine. Bob made it work again and now this seafoam green beauty has found a new life as the hot rod shop washing machine. No better way to wash grungy shop rags than with a vintage wringer washer.

Bob actually has some prior experience loading a wringer as he used to help his grandmother do laundry on their dude ranch in Glacier National Park. She did eights sets of bed sheets every Sunday in a 1940's wringer washer. Here is an ad The skirt found for a Dexter washer in the same spring green color. It is a newer model, but has the same graceful curves. We found the Speedex at Triple R Auctions. Check them out.