I'm on my second fridge since moving out of home almost 30 years ago. My current one is older than my first, though both are much older than me.
I remember once seeing an old rounded top fridge like I have at the tip shop. It had been repainted at least 3 or 4 times. First in a similar beige to original, presumably as it started to look shabby. At some point it had been purple, probably in a student share house or something, then back to a few roughly brushed coats of more neutral colours before finally, battered with the previous colours showing through it had been dropped off at the dump, standing in a line of gleaming white brand new looking but non-functional refrigerators.
It probably only needed a regas, that or just plug it in