Howard Sullivan (welding) and Wes Myrick are working on a storage
compartment door under the main stage.
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The compartments held all kinds of equipment needed to set up the
exhibit and the show.
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Don Mayton and Jerry Sigler work on fasteners for one of the storage
compartment doors.
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Wayne is skinning the inside of one of the storage compartment doors.
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This is one of a number of electrical panels in the Futurliner. Fred Carpenter
is installing door moldings.
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Wally Snow is working in the cab, installing and hooking up miles of
wires.
Wally continues to work at home and bring the completed items to the
shop. He has mounted the limit switches inside the Hydramatic
shifter that indicates reverse and allows the Futurliner to only be
started in neutral. In addition, he continues to work on the
transmission shifter cables that extend back to the transmission.
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Front view of the Futurliner. Left opening is for driver access and
the right is for access to the engine.
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Don Mayton is drilling holes to attach the massive rubber bumper.
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This view shows how thick the rubber bumper is that protects the
Futurliner from impact. When you think of rubber you think of
something soft but this stuff is as hard as a rock.
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Another view of the rubber bumper installation process. Lots of
holes to drill and lots of grunt work to install the rubber.
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