In fact, that cool-looking Futurliner (that's how GM spelled it) came from
Canada, where it was restored in Montreal in the 1990s for $300,000-plus. A
group of businessmen/enthusiasts found it in a Chicago scrapyard for
$17,000. So for $4 million, that's not a bad return!
GM built 12 Futurliners in 1939-40 and then refitted them in the early 1950s
when it revived its Parade of Progress. Nine are known to survive, including
three -- one is the Michigan one that's been discussed here -- in the
original configuration. Gotta wonder where the missing three went!
Rob Bostelaar
Ottawa Canada
'51 GMC five-window
> At 10:05 AM 1/23/2006, Carl & Becky Ham wrote:
> >I gotta believe this is the same Futureliner Bill Moldenhauer and I
> >visited back in October 2004 in Michigan (details are on the oletrucks
> >website under the Member Only page).
oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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