I have an older KA Mixer that was one of my friends mothers so it is probably some 40+ years old. It looks similar to your only a light minty sort of green. It works fine but my new KA 325 watt is faster and stronger.

Michelle

I hear 70s retro is big, so that color will probably be trendy again soon. :) Mine is probably 40 years old and white. As I mnetioned in the other thread, my MIL gave it to me. She then went out and bought a KA Pro. Within a month she was trying to negotiate a trade with me because the old one she gave me was, in her opinion, the better machine by far. After using hers a couple of times and using my SILs smaller (new) KA, I will not be buying one. I'm looking at Electrolux, Viking and Bosch.

Wattage doesn't tell the whole story. A motor can have more watts and not be as efficient.

Hobart does make a 5 qt model, but it is very expensive, nearly $1500.

Here is a link that might be useful: Hobart N50 model

beanthere_dunthat - thanks for the link. I really like the looks of the Hobart. They don't make a lot of things like they use to but that would be a whole another topic.
Clare

I have an old model KA (model K5SS), that was made by Hobart. It is still going strong, in spite of heavy use. I made the weekly supply of bread for my family, and my son was a hunter so it did its share of turning deer meat into hamburger!

I believe Hobart still makes commercial bakery equipment. Whenever I see a picture of a bakery workroom, I notice the Hobart logo on the equipment.

My old KitchenAid is as important as the refrigerator and cooking range! Wouldn't trade it for anything!!!

I also had a more than 30 year old KA (Hobart) mixer. Mine was white in the bowl lift model - I don't think they even had colors when we got it. It was still going strong but I wanted to upgrade the capacity and get something that went better with my new kitchen so we replaced it with a dark pewter Pro 600 KA. The old KA was passed on to one of my sons.

I had read that KA had problems with plastic in the gear box for a while but they have resolved that. I hope so - we have had the new mixer for almost a year and it has been doing fine so far - including big bread batches.

The slow start is a nice improvement - flour doesn't fly everywhere when I start it up like it did with the old model. I also like having burnished (i.e. metal surface) beater and dough hook instead of plastic covered - the plastic covered beater had to be replaced a couple of times over the years when the plastic started to flake off. I wish they would do stainless steel beaters that could go in the dishwasher - the one bad thing about the burnished ones is having to hand wash. If you put them in the dishwasher, the detergent reacts with the surface and they get rough.

Just came across this webpage. Thought it may be of interest to other KA users!

http://forum.kitchenaid.com/

I forgot about the coated beater and chiping. I have already replaced it once. It is starting to that again. I wished it came in SS too.
Clare

I like the color :)

Over the weekend we visited DD and she has just painted the walls and purchased a new, big, sectional couch for the kids play/tv room. The walls are light gold and the couch is a dark greenish/brownish (I'm not good with describing color, LOL) sort of color - exactly like my first living room when I was married in 1971 :) It's coming baaaaack...............

BTW we later called the wall color "baby sh!t yellow".

Difficult to do this with a Kitchen Aid. I should start selling Bosch doncha think?

lisbet - thanks for the link. I haven't checked it out yet but I will.

The Bosch is definitely a different look. How well does it work in that configuration? Is the motor on the side or bottom? The top of my KA has a tiny patch of paint scraped off from sliding it in and out of the cabinet.

I don't remember what they called the color - maybe Harvest Gold to match all the 70's appliances. It matched the tiles in my old 1971 kitchen. I called them pi&& yellow.
Clare

Clare - I'm also guessing Harvest Gold! Practically my entire house was Harvest Gold in 1971!