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GM Futurliner Progress Photos
GM Futurliner Restoration Project
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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

Valley Truck has the body work almost complete on the Futurliner. It will go to their paint shop at the end of the week.
Ed, Wes, Dick and Marty got out the side aluminum trim. They spent the day figuring out how to go about the process of installing the side trim once the Futurliner returns from the body shop. They tried several methods and discovered the small trim would not fit into the larger trim.	Dick, Don, Ed and Wes working on trying to figure out how the trim goes together.
More men are brought into the process of trying to figure out how the trim goes together.	A couple of hammers are brought out to intimidate the trim pieces into going together. Even that didn't work. The head scratching will continue next week.
Bud Dinger work on sanding down some of the aluminum letters for the side of the Futurliner.	Today we continued doing the preparation of the letters for final buffing. Bud and Don did final grinding with the 320 grit DA. All final buffing was done by Ron. We discovered that after final buffing some scratches showed up on some of the letters and they had to go back to have the scratches removed by more grinding and then back to Ron. Ron completed the buffing of all the letters today.
Don takes his turn at sanding letters.	Ed and Dick are working together on some trim pieces.
Howard and Wes worked on counter sinking the mounting bolts for the front rubber bumper sections.	Mike purchased all the rubber blocks necessary for Jim to begin the construction of the rear rubber section that is missing from our Futurliner. First Jim constructed a metal box to mount the rubber onto. This box has flanges in order to fasten it to the rear of the Futurliner. Next he started the process of cutting the rubber bumper sections. He had Mike purchase four different thickness' of rubber starting with 1" thick pieces. These he plans to cut out forming the letter "M" and using rubber adhesive stacking the sections to form the bumper section.
Art Miedema sanded and metal finished the interior door that separates the rear generator area from the display area of the Futurliner. Next he primed this door on both sides.	Art Miedema mixing primer for painting the door.
The 350 trim clips that had been primed now needed their final coat of paint. Howard patiently dipped each clip into a container of black paint until they were completed.	Here Wally Snow is either having his feet X-rayed, looking at a peep-show or doing some sandblasting. Wally had taken home the Hydramatic gear selector mechanism. This is mounted in an 18" box that stands next to the driver's seat. Wally blocked out the "high - reverse" position mechanically and worked on installing internal limit switches. Today he gathered up the two original cables that attaches from this selector box back to the Hydramatic transmission. Then he started the process of freeing up and lubricating.