GM Futurliner Progress Photos
GM Futurliner Restoration Project
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The Futurliner prepares to travel to the Fleetwood Country Car Cruize-In in London, Canada. Driving the Futurliner onto the trailer likens itself to landing on an aircraft carrier. When you are standing on the deck it looks huge, but when you're coming in for a landing, it looks like a postage stamp.

You're guess is a good as mine as to what he is attempting to do. He could be pulling, kicking or just expressing some body language as the tractor hooks up with the trailer.

The Futurliner is secured to the trailer with chains.

We're ready to do some trucking to Canada.

Entering Canada was a new experience for the team. We had all kinds of paper work to fill out prior to us taking the Futurliner across into Canada including posting a financial bond.

Our Futurliner volunteers going into Canada included: Wally and Audrey Snow; Chuck and Gail Snow; Conrad and Judy DeJong; Don and Carol Mayton. They did an outstanding job as hosts for the Futurliner.

Friday evening the Futurliner was positioned in front of the "BIG TENT" that was used for that evening's banquet as well as the performing artists. This tent is reported to be the largest in Canada.

Saturday the Futurliner was moved to a high traffic area near Steve Plunkett's (our host) house. They were expecting around 2,500 cars at the show. They had special guests such as George Barris, Batman, Catwoman, and all the vehicles that the Batman TV  Show series used such as the car, helicopter, and motorcycle. For the evening show there were musical artists.

Nothing last forever and we headed back to Michigan. We had a wonderful time and we made some great new friends.

Traffic was light as we traversed the bridge to Michigan. We had a little delay with the paperwork and ran through a rain storm but we made it back to Grand Rapids with no problems.

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