Thanks Larry,
I guess it was too early to completely read the other messages on the
Hemmings blog site but the 1 of 3 owners said it is being used for a
children with illness charity. I'll have to try and track down when it will
be on the east coast for a tour. I wonder if Raymond Lowey designed it?
Raymond Lowey is a world famous Industrial Designer who designed the Avanti
as well as many US Locomotives of the 40's with the same streamline look and
tons of household products.
Thanks
Linda
http://www.raymondloewyfoundation.com/about/index.html
On 11/17/06, Larry Daniels <ladaniels@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> Peter C. and I saw the Futurliner at the Iola, WI car show. For a $1
> donation, you could go inside and tour it. If you ever get the chance, go
> see it. It is pretty spectacular for it's time.
>
> LD
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Linda Grunthaner" <grunthaner@gmail.com>
> To: "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 4:16 AM
> Subject: no LBC........ GM Futurliner bus Barrett-Jackson
>
>
> Spridgets,
> I got up way too early this morning probably because I was thinking how
> little work I have done on my car and how much Frank has done on his car
> even with a hernia. So I put on TV (Frank would have gone to the garage)
> to
> watch Barrett Jackson's highlights special and saw first hand the bidding
> of
> the 1950 *GM *Futurliner bus. It totally woke me up with the record
> winning
> bid of around 4.2 million and they said the owner was hoping for 600K. But
> when I did a search because I wanted to know if Raymond Loewy was the
> industrial designer and I found an article from Hemmings stating the
> bidder
> backed out. I tried to continue the article but I'm a little lost anyone
> know the results? The articles are below.
> Linda
> 62 California Sprite "Pinky"
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