Today
9 futurliners have been found and documented with history.Of the 12, one was wrecked (considered totaled) during the 1956 parade year and was not replaced. Futurliner #11 sold for a record US$4,000,000 (plus premium) on Jan 21, 2006 at a Barrett-Jackson auction in Arizona. Too large to ship, it was driven to its new home in Chandler.
Futurliner #10 is believed to be the most accurately restored of the Futurliners.
As of summer 2008 Futurliner #8 was delivered to its new home in Sweden, the new owner plans to restore it over a 10-year period. It's the first and only Futurliner in Europe.
Of the other six known surviving Futurliners, one is used as a motorhome and another in advertising. One is in Maine,and one in California are currently being restored.Another in California is for sale and in original condition. Two buses are generally beyond restoration and are in storage .There are still two futurliners unaccounted for,see a history of the gm parade of progress at futurliner.com. 2012. .
| GM Futurliner #10 | |||||||||
|
|||||||||
| GM Futurliner #10 at 2007 Vicksburg Car Show | ||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||
Read more about this topic: GM Futurliner
Famous quotes containing the word today:
“In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“Dearest Lord, may I see you today and every day in the person of your sick, and, whilst nursing them, minister unto you. Though you hide yourself behind the unattractive disguise of the irritable, the exacting, the unreasonable, may I still recognize you, and say: “Jesus, my patient, how sweet it is to serve you.””
—Mother Teresa (b. 1910)
“The most original authors of today are original not because they create something new but because they are capable of saying such things as if they had never been said before.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)