General Motors - Futurline 9 - Motorhome Conversion
The GM Futurliners were a series of Bus-like vehicles designed to travel the US, bringing displays of new and exciting 20th Century technologies to US rural communities.
Most of the Futurliners were built during late 1939, ready for the tours in 1940.
The Futurliners were retired during the late 1950s, as GM's community displays took a back seat to the Motorama motorshow experience.
After many years, these Motorama buses found new purposes. Futurliner 9, shown here, was refurbished to a motorhome from 1984.
The scheme was changed from red over silver to white over red shown here. Additional windows were added at the sides.
The interior has a bar on the left hand side, with a lounge/sleeping area at the rear of the Futurliner.
Futurliner 9 also received some resto-mod help, with a late 1940s Chevrolet inline six 'stovebolt six' in place of the four-cylinder power originally specified.
To read further on the Futurliners:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_Futurliner
sanfernandovalleyblog.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/general-mot...
As a style statement though, the Futurliners are an awesome mid-20th Century rolling monument to modernism.
This Lego miniland-scale 1940s General Motors Futurliner 9 - Motorhome Conversion has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 103rd Build Challenge, titled - 'The Fabulous Forties!' - a challenge for any vehicle produced through the decade of the 1940s.
General Motors - Futurline 9 - Motorhome Conversion
The GM Futurliners were a series of Bus-like vehicles designed to travel the US, bringing displays of new and exciting 20th Century technologies to US rural communities.
Most of the Futurliners were built during late 1939, ready for the tours in 1940.
The Futurliners were retired during the late 1950s, as GM's community displays took a back seat to the Motorama motorshow experience.
After many years, these Motorama buses found new purposes. Futurliner 9, shown here, was refurbished to a motorhome from 1984.
The scheme was changed from red over silver to white over red shown here. Additional windows were added at the sides.
The interior has a bar on the left hand side, with a lounge/sleeping area at the rear of the Futurliner.
Futurliner 9 also received some resto-mod help, with a late 1940s Chevrolet inline six 'stovebolt six' in place of the four-cylinder power originally specified.
To read further on the Futurliners:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_Futurliner
sanfernandovalleyblog.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/general-mot...
As a style statement though, the Futurliners are an awesome mid-20th Century rolling monument to modernism.
This Lego miniland-scale 1940s General Motors Futurliner 9 - Motorhome Conversion has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 103rd Build Challenge, titled - 'The Fabulous Forties!' - a challenge for any vehicle produced through the decade of the 1940s.