GM Futurliner Progress Photos
GM Futurliner Restoration Project
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    The Futurliner was hosted at the AACA Museum in Hershey, PA prior to the week of the car show and swap meet. The museum is really two museums in one. It displays cars and buses. While the Futurliner is not a bus (it was never intended to haul passengers), the point is that the museum does have doors big enough to allow it to enter and be displayed. If you never have toured the museum, you will have to do it. It really is a "must see" automobile and bus collection.

    The Futurliner on display inside the AACA Museum. Unlike the show field, visitors had the leisure to take their time and look it over quite thoroughly.

    Volunteers, Wayne Jackson and John Marsh, were on duty when this 18 year old young man by the name of Gavin showed up. They could tell he was enthralled by the Futurliner as he looked it over from end to end. After a while he stopped at the driver's access door and looked up at the 10' high driver's seat. Everyone wants to sit in the driver's seat but Gavin suffers from Cerebral Palsy and he couldn't physically do it on his own.
    For the men who did what some said could never  be done and restored the Futurliner; where there is a will, there is a way!

    Gavin was enthusiastic as the men offered to help him  up the narrow access passage to sit in the driver's seat of the Futurliner. They studied the situation and decided that one would take him under the arms and another would carry his legs.
(LEFT)    Elated, Gavin sits in the 10' high driver's seat of the Futurliner and imagines what it must have been like to drive the vehicle. As tears of joy run down Gavin's cheeks the men choke up a little themselves.
    The  Futurliner brings wonderment into the lives of those who view her. Some are amazed that it could ever be restored, some are amazed that it ever existed, some are amazed by the story behind it and the GM Parade of Progress it traveled with.
    And then there is Gavin ... amazed that he had the opportunity to sit in the lofty driver's seat. 
    And then there were the volunteers ... amazed that they had the opportunity to touch someone's life with such a thrill of a lifetime.
    Sometimes helping someone achieve an impossible dream is the most rewarding part of it all.

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