This is Futurliner  #10. It was one of 12 built by GM for the Parade of Progress show in the 40s and 50s. Restoration, by a dedicated crew of volunteers, began in 1999. A display for the interior has been built by the volunteers but it is still hoped that GM will allow the American Crossroads display (the only original display remaining) to be restored and displayed in the Futurliner. 

RESURRECTING THE FUTURE FROM THE PAST

Near the West Michigan lakeshore community of Zeeland, Michigan, an ambitious all-volunteer project restored a 1953 GM Futurliner. The restoration project took seven years (1999-2006) and was directed by Don Mayton, retired GM Plant Manager, is under the auspices of the NATMUS (National Automotive & Truck Museum  of the United States, Inc.), located in Auburn, Indiana. Joe Bortz, of the Bortz Auto Collection located in Illinois, donated the Futurliner to NATMUS. NATMUS which owns the vehicle, but Don and a crew of volunteers restored it in Michigan.

If you have any information about the history of the Streamliners, Futurliners, Parade of Progress or know of anyone who worked on one of these, please contact one of the following.

Don M. Mayton, Project Director
4521 Majestic Vue, Zeeland, MI 49464
616 875-3058

Dean G. Tryon, Newsletter Editor
2516 Laurelford Ln., Wake Forest, NC 27587
919 562-4660

John Martin Smith, NATMUS Director Emeritus 
1000 Gordon M. Buehrig Place
P.O. Box 686, Auburn, IN 46706-0686
260 925-4560