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

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

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2003 - Progress & Work Photos - 2003
The Way It Looks 1/1/2003 Bottom Half Painted Work Session 1/21 Carbs Session 1/28 Kalamazoo Swap Meet 2/1 Session 2/4 Session 2/11 Session 2/18 Session 2/24 Final Paint 3/4 Session 3/11	Session 3/18 Paint Progress Session 3/25 Session 4/1 Session 4/8 Lady In Red Ready for Trim Adding the Trim GM Letters Session 4/21 Session 4/22 Session 4/29	Session 4/30 Session 5/5 Session 5/6 Session 5/12 Session 5/19-20 Session 5/24 Session 6/2-3 Test Drive 6/9 Wheel Falls Off 6/9 Prepared to Travel 6/16 Eyes on Design 6/23 Lowboy Trailer 9/30	Light Housing 10/21 Wiring 10/21 Weather Seals 10/21 Electrical 10/28 Session 11/4 Session 11/11 Tire Mold 11/18 Session 11/24 Session 12/8 Last Session for '03

Del Carpenter pulls the Futurliner out of the warm work bay for a mid-December photo shoot.
Jeff works on wiring the light bar. When fully raised it illuminates the entire Futurliner and surrounding area. The light bar is powered by a 110 volt generator which runs off the engine. A view of the partially raised light bar.	John Betts (pictured above) from Retro 1-2-3, and an associate, visited the Futurliner and took extensive photographs and measurements. John sells high quality, scale model toys and is being asked to manufacture a model of the Futurliner. These are armrests on the driver's seat. They will undergo restoration soon.
Much work remains to finish the wiring and interior. The Futurliner is like building a house -- there is just as much work to finish the interior as there was putting the outside shell up. Jerry Sigler cuts re-enforcing bars for the gull-wing doors.	Del Carpenter and Stan Bowers hand-fit pieces of the exhaust system together for final installation. The exhaust runs a circumventing course through the Futurliner and exhausts out the roof on the right-hand side of the vehicle. Del would like us to think he and Stan are bending and shaping the pipe by hand -- not!