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The GM Futurliner was created to participate in the Parade of Progress, a traveling tour that showed off futuristic items like microwaves, radar, and ping-pong tables. by Amanda Cline Published on November 18, 2021 3 min read The General Motors Futurliner isn't something you will see on the streets unless you live in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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When GM discontinued the Parade of Progress, the Futurliners were sold off to various interests. A couple were purchased by the Michigan State Police and yet another was purchased by the Oral Roberts Ministries. Futurliner #10 was purchased by the Goebel Brewing Company, headquartered in Detroit, MI.
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The vertical shaft in the picture is the steering column. The power plant is a 145-horsepower, 302 cubic inch GMC gasoline engine. It not only is called upon to propel the massive Futurliner over the highways and byways but to turn a huge generator for electricity during the show. Compression ratio is 7.3 to 1.
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(February 24, 2011) The announcement on the Hemmings Blog of the pending sale at auction of one of the 12 GM Futurliners raised the curiosity of MotowayAmerica's Nostalgia Highway.We had some vague recollection of General Motors bringing "the future" to towns and cities across the country in a traveling road show in the 1940s and 1950s, but we w.
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14 January 2022 Share Hagerty Drivers Foundation Back when the World's Fair was the best way to peer into the future and learn about cutting-edge technological and scientific advances from around the globe, General Motors expanded upon the idea and took its show on the road.
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Parade of Progress was a North American exhibition put on by GM in hopes of promoting future cars and technologies. These Futurliners were massive; they stood at 11 feet tall, 8 feet wide, 33 feet long and weighed over 12 tons. They featured heavy Art deco styling. Rear right Futurliner #3 on display in Salt Lake City, UT. FlugKerl2 CC BY-SA 4.0
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The GM Futurliners were a group of custom vehicles, styled in the 1940s by Harley Earl for General Motors, and integral to the company's Parade of Progress—a North American traveling exhibition promoting future cars and technologies.
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General Motors released a line of Futurliners as part of their vision for the future and progress. This is one of only eight customer futurliners that was bu.
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Indeed, according to Bruce Berghoff and George Ferris's book, General Motors Parade of Progress & A Futurliner Returns, GM numbered the Futurliners to facilitate placing them at the various sites they traveled to across the country.
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So which GM Futurliner is which? An initial effort toward a Futurliner registry While putting together the recent story on the restoration of Futurliner No. 3, we came across a unique dilemma - how to accurately and succinctly differentiate the various General MotorsParade of Progress Futurliners?