2001 - Parader Visits

GM Futurliner Progress Photos
GM Futurliner Restoration Project
National Automotive and Truck Museum of the United States

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	Project Director, Don Mayton, shares the cab with former Parader Rafee Johns.
Former Parader Raffee Johns visits the project and is given a tour of the Futurliner restoration project by Project Director Don Mayton. Raffee and his wife Esther brought photos, newspaper articles, and paperwork describing the Parade of Progress. Raffee was hired as a trainee in 1954 and the first job he was given was to take a stick with a nail in it and go pick up all the paper on the ground. Raffee gave his opening speech to the volunteers that he gave inside the Aer-O-Dome tent. He remembered it after all these years. He loaned the project some uniforms that he still had so patterns could be made and the uniforms reproduced for the volunteers. Follow this link for more on the uniforms.
Raffee points to something in the cab of the Futurliner as he shares with Project Director, Don Mayton.	Volunteer, Del Carpenter, listens as Raffee recalls he years with the Parade of Progress.
	Dean Tryon, Stu Allen and John H. (sorry I lost the note to his last name) stopped by. Dean lives in N. Carolina and restores parts for the Futurliner and Stu lives in Clio (Flint area), Michigan and restores small components as well. All three are GM retirees.