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

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Howard Sullivan (welding) and Wes Myrick are working on a storage compartment door under the main stage.

The compartments held all kinds of equipment needed to set up the exhibit and the show.

Don Mayton and Jerry Sigler work on fasteners for one of the storage compartment doors.

Wayne is skinning the inside of one of the storage compartment doors.

This is one of a number of electrical panels in the Futurliner. Fred Carpenter is installing door moldings.

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.

Front view of the Futurliner. Left opening is for driver access and the right is for access to the engine. 

Don Mayton is drilling holes to attach the massive rubber bumper.

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.

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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