General Motors Futurliner 1950


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General Motors released a line of Futurliners as part of their vision for the future and progress. This is one of only eight customer futurliners that was bu.


What Happened to General Motors' UltraRare 1939 Futurliners?

Futurliner No. 10—one of 12 custom-made, art-deco-styled display trucks built on late-'30s GMC bus chassis—was part of GM's Parade of Progress, a traveling roadshow that brought new.


General Motors Futurliner

(February 24, 2011) The announcement on the Hemmings Blog of the pending sale at auction of one of the 12 GM Futurliners raised the curiosity of MotowayAmerica's Nostalgia Highway.We had some vague recollection of General Motors bringing "the future" to towns and cities across the country in a traveling road show in the 1940s and 1950s, but we w.


General Motors Futurliner

The GM Futurliners were a group of custom vehicles, styled in the 1940s by Harley Earl for General Motors, and integral to the company's Parade of Progress—a North American traveling exhibition promoting future cars and technologies.


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When GM discontinued the Parade of Progress, the Futurliners were sold off to various interests. A couple were purchased by the Michigan State Police and yet another was purchased by the Oral Roberts Ministries. Futurliner #10 was purchased by the Goebel Brewing Company, headquartered in Detroit, MI.


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1939 General Motors Futurliner: By the Numbers Powertrain: Supercharged 4-71 Detroit Diesel four-cylinder | 4-speed automatic transmission | rear-wheel-drive Price (asking): $1,000,000.


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Parade of Progress was a North American exhibition put on by GM in hopes of promoting future cars and technologies. These Futurliners were massive; they stood at 11 feet tall, 8 feet wide, 33 feet long and weighed over 12 tons. They featured heavy Art deco styling. Rear right Futurliner #3 on display in Salt Lake City, UT. FlugKerl2 CC BY-SA 4.0


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Learn more about One of Nine Left: 1939 GM Futurliner on Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online.


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The vertical shaft in the picture is the steering column. The power plant is a 145-horsepower, 302 cubic inch GMC gasoline engine. It not only is called upon to propel the massive Futurliner over the highways and byways but to turn a huge generator for electricity during the show. Compression ratio is 7.3 to 1.


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RESURRECTING THE FUTURE FROM THE PAST: Near the West Michigan lakeshore community of Zeeland, Michigan, an ambitious all-volunteer crew restored a 1953 GM Futurliner.The restoration project took seven years (1999-2006) and was directed by Don Mayton, retired GM Plant Manager, under the auspices of the NATM (National Auto & Truck Museum), located in Auburn, Indiana.


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The GM Futurliner GM Futurliner Restoration Project National Automotive and Truck Museum of the United States : HOME '33 World's Fair 1936 Parade 1938 Previews 1941 Parade 1953 Parade 1954 Parade Aero-O-Dome Exhibits Demonstrations Appreciation Letters. Futurliner Development Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Mich. Police


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GM News This Ultra Rare GM Futurliner Is Rotting Away in a Storage Lot. Here's How It Got There How does a multimillion-dollar artifact end up as scrap? The answer involves, among other.


General Motors Futurliner 1950

The GM Futurliner was created to participate in the Parade of Progress, a traveling tour that showed off futuristic items like microwaves, radar, and ping-pong tables. by Amanda Cline Published on November 18, 2021 3 min read The General Motors Futurliner isn't something you will see on the streets unless you live in Springfield, Massachusetts.


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