I not only know of one, I have one. It's an AMERICAN MADE SUNBEAM!!!
Oh, they're not made in America any more?
Well, I knew something was wrong, because it is 55 years old and it still works as well as it did when it was new. No chineeeeeeze-made piece of junk will ever equal that, I'll betcha.
I guess Ben is right. (again)
Fort not much more than the inflation adjusted price of your 55 year old Sunbeam, you can get a very solid and elegant toaster at Williams Sonoma. My "coffee machine" is a $5 filter funnel. Lasts indefinitely, because I can lift my ($200 Williams Sonoma - hey, not all decisions are rational) teakettle myself.
Thank you for the compliments to Sunbeam....my dad worked there all his working life, as a machinist, making all the little parts for all those appliances...my moms kitchen, and my own kitchen, had nothing but Sunbeam appliances in them...dad always got a good discount on appliances bought at the company store....
I still have some of those appliances, and I bet they are probably as old as your old toaster....and they still work...what I especially like about having them, is that I like to imagine, improbable as this may be, is that my personal appliance actually has a part that my dad made...