My grandfather, Bill Barnes worked the Parade of Progress as a mechanical engineer for GM. He gave me a Hamilton "tanker watch" inscribed to him for the first Parade of Progress. I remember the stories he told me as a boy in the 50's. So proud of you Grandpa!!
yes and they had it on display this year out of the museum down town at the cruise in the week before the acd festival showing off the display when open, and they let people go up in the cab which there is not a lot of room in surprisingly the size of the truck bus
It is wonderful to see the one that was once owned by Peter Pan of Springfield, MA. Peter Picknally Sr. was the one responsible for saving that one and had a complete restoration done to it. He was a great man!!!
At the 5-minute mark, it shows the restoration of one by Dave Kindig @ kin-digit Designs in SLC Utah. It was reported that it took years to restore but Damn what a piece!!
I saw one at Barrett-Jackson in Scottsdale around 2004. I suspect it is the one at 3:40. Just stunning to stand next to it. I really wanted to get inside. Driving it would be a trip.
I realy look forward to see more from the Swedish guy, considering that one was almost a complete sieve whan he got it, he did a massive job on it i must say!
This Truck was in the GM motorama, a traveling exibit that contained concept cars. These cars are locked up in a warehouse in the GM design center, where only a few people ever see them. They should be put in the transportarium in Epcot center in Walt Disney world.
Futurliner #11 was sold in 2015 at Auction, that was Ron Pratt's #11, not Kindig's #3. Kindig's is the most correct restoration down to new old stock upholstery and the correct engine.
One of these was parked in the Valley, in LA on a side street for many years 1980-1990ish. It was a little beat up. I always wondered what it was about and what its destiny way. Kewl looking thing.
This one futurliner had to be transformed into a pick up because of missing parts for the restauration? They were able to restore all the difficult parts but not the quite simple cargo bay? Hard to believe ... ;-)
It was made up of leftover parts on a modern chassis. The owner has a large collection of commercial vehicles. They would bring it to vintage trailer rallys I go to.
@@smithjones3548True, also those things look custom made. The chassis and drivetrain are probably something from GM, everything else is probably custom.
Wow! GM was pretty optimistic about the durability of that bus since it had a one-million mile odometer when most cars of the day had a 100,000 mile odometer. 2:32
I saw one of these in a low budget scifi action film called Firepower from the 90's I think there was one in mystery men as well. Would not be surprised if it was the same one.
Mansion if they put the screaming Jimmy for the horsepower how fast those things would be. The 302 was a very powerful engine I don't think GM knew how to play with the motor to make it have more.
such a shame my youth of education 1977-1992 never mentioned this amazing auto information on wheels once. at least the one of Jet Age was preserved by far i think the best example.
"Ultra-rare" might be a bit of an overstatement, there's at least 8 of them still around(no, there weren't 8 of them, there were 12, the previous Streamliners were different vehicles), and possibly as many as 11, 3 in Germany and one in Sweden. #1, "Miracles of Heat and Cold" #2, "Our American Crossroads" The locations of these are both unknown. #3, "Power for the Air Age" Currently in the Dennis Albaugh Collection #4, "Diesel Power Parade" Again, unknown #5, "World of Science" In the collection of ChromeCars, in Germany #6, "Energy and Man" Owned by Peter Pan Bus Lines #7, "Out of the City Muddle" Again, in ChromeCars collection #8, "Around the Farm House Clock" In private hands in Sweden #9, "Reception Center" Again, in ChromeCars collection #10, "Opportunity for Youth" In the National Automotive and Truck Museum collection #11, "March of Tools" In private owership, this is the famous "4 million dollars" vehicle #12, "Precision and Durability" Location unknown.
Come, US friends. Back in 1851 in London was the first World Expo, where ordinary citizens could discover the latest developments in technology. Did not have to wait for the 1930s.
It's almost criminal that the producers of this film used metric weights and measures to describe this machine - an Icon of US engineering prowess, which to this day still operates on the Imperial system of weights and measures. Shame on you people.
The Part, the PicUp was shown, was filmed near JENA at Thüringen in the East of Germany. I wonder about the City Sign , stop the video and take a look where i will find Laasdorf.
I wonder if that was #11 I was filming on Hi8 in North Hollywood years ago. Parked on Vineland near Chandler for a few months. You don't know how HUGE these are until you see one in person. The guy that made that cut up thing should be interrogated. Not just an ugly POS but stupid. 👀
Or,...The United States exibit near that lake that foreign countrys have their pavillions. That show about Us. History. is not enjoyed much to people from other countries. Perhaps they could convert that to something called "When America Was Great." They should also have a well polished F-104 and a B-58, and maybe the "Spirit Of America" Land Speed Record Holder that went 600+ MPH, and maybe a Vulcan Gateling gun from an F-16.
DUDE.....why are you using metric terms to describe this vehicle?? It did NOT travel in kilometers, the height, length and width was NOT measured in meters.
American vehicles. Conceived and built by Americans. Why you choose to give speeds and dimensions in M&Ms is beyond me. The future thinkers that built this thing used inches.
