GM Futurliner Progress Photos
GM Futurliner Restoration Project
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Left side of Futurliner. The opening in the front is the service door to the engine.

Right side of the Futurliner. This side has all the trim installed.

Don Mayton stands on the demonstration stage. You can see how the main doors open to make a stage. In fact, behind Don, the other side of the Futurliner opens up just like this.

Ed DeVries looks over the doors for proper fit and functionality. In their original form, these doors were a little tricky to operate and get closed without assistance.

Although we have a new windshield, it will not be installed until the interior is completed. The interior will not be done until 2004. In the meantime, we intend to install a temporary windshield made of plastic. On Monday, Wayne measured the glass windshield so that we could get a plastic one cut close to the size we needed. He created a paper template that covered the windshield and then he laid it out on the floor to find out how large of a piece of plastic we would need.

Art Meidema, Jim Baker and Conrad DeJong install one of the rear doors.

This hub cap was given to us by Mr. Peter Picknelly, president of Peter Pan Bus Company. It's beat up quite bad but Art Meidema is going to try and fix it. Someone asked, why not just have some new ones made? We checked it out and the die would cost around $30,000. 

Del Carpenter questions these two volunteers as to why they are watching the paint dry when there is work to do.

Actually, Wayne Jackson and Jerry Sigler are working on installing trim. They found the chairs to be more comfortable than stooping over.

Re-chromed hardware.


    Fred and his wife Marge, and Wayne and his wife Lois, each have booths at the spring Carlisle, Pennsylvania car meet. Fortunately for us they also spent time looking for Futurliner parts. Previously Wayne had found used front door handles for the Futurliner. Fred was able to match these with new reproduced ones. We were missing the glass lens for the four running lights that are on the top rear and front of the Futurliner. These lens were red in the rear and amber in the front. Wayne had previously identified that the 1941 Chevy truck fender light lens were the same except they were clear lens. On this trip Fred also found that the same lens were used on 1940 Pontiacs. Again, Fred hit pay dirt as he found three clear glass lenses. We have two original red glass lens that are in so - so condition that we will use unless we find more of the glass lens. We will use amber bulbs in the front with the new glass lens that Fred found.
    One of the lenses came in a GM Parts Division box with the number 5932343. If there are more of these glass lens out there we would appreciate a contact.
    Wayne in the meantime found a model of a 1953 Chevy tractor, red, just like the tractors used to pull the trailers for the Parade of Progress. He was able to match a model trailer. He then had stencils made and we now have a "Parade of Progress" 1953 tractor - trailer combination. It looks great.

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