GM Futurliner Progress Photos
GM Futurliner Restoration Project
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Ed DeVries and Connie DeYoung make final adjustments to the lighting fin mechanism.


Don Mayton speaks to a visiting group of engineers from Prince Corporation.


Ed Devries and Bud Dinger look over a shipment of wheels from California. 

    Pictured is Don Mayton receiving the donated, restored Futurliner wheels from Steve Cordes. Del Carpenter looks on.
   
Steve Cordes picked up all four of the Futurliner wheel/tire assemblies. He had the tires dismounted at his family business (truck tire business), then took the wheels to a company in Kalamazoo, Michigan that sand blasts and paints using the powder coat method. 
   We now have four beautiful wheels painted in their final red color. Although this operation sounds rather simple in order to prepare the wheels to go through their system Steve had to tack weld the rings on the wheels so they could travel through their automatic system. In addition, Steve brought back two mounted used wheel/tire assemblies so we can put these on the Futurliner temporary. We want to do this so as not to mar the new painted wheels. This way we can mount new tires on newly painted wheels later on. Thanks Steve for taking care of this.

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