Cruise Back to the Future -- The GM Futurliner Comes to the AACA Museum

It’s 33 feet long and almost twelve feet high, yet it’s only eight feet wide.   It has an interior staircase, a driver’s seat perched ten feet above the highway, and a streamlined aluminum body.   Is it a bus . . . ?  Is it a train . . . ?  It’s the GM Futurliner! [Yes, that’s the way it’s spelled.]

In 1940, General Motors built twelve Futurliners to transport its Parade of Progress show, a traveling technology fair that featured animated exhibits and live demonstrations showcasing General Motors automotive and technological innovations.  It has an interior staircase, a driver’s seat perched ten feet above the highway, and a streamlined body that makes it look more like a locomotive than a bus or truck.  The Futurliners served as mobile exhibition halls, stages, power plants, and transport vehicles for the show which toured the United States from 1940 through the mid-1950s.  After the show was discontinued, the Futurliners were sold to private buyers.
Futurliner No. 10 will be on display at the Antique Auto Museum at Hershey from Sunday, October 11, 2009 - Spring of 2010.