Photo of the five Futurliners that Joe Bortz bought in the 1980's

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1534133378715258&set=pcb.1534136055381657

Hubcap for a 1953 GM Futurliner, one of only 48 custom made for the fleet of 12 Futurliners -- 27.00 at a thrift shop in Akron, OH

 https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=122278949138226885&set=pcb.122278958642226885

'53 COE truck made into a Futurliner tribute, made by the Dreyer & Reinbold Indy race team’s Carmel, Indiana, shop to use it for hospitality use at the Indy 500 and Indianapolis Colts games.

The legacy of the Dreyer and Reinbold family dates back to the 1920s with Reinbold’s grandfather, the legendary Floyd “Pop” Dreyer, a former factory motorcycle racer. Dreyer served as a crewman and mechanic on the famed Duesenberg driven by Benny Shoaff and Babe Stapp in the 1927 Indy 500. Dreyer went on to build Indy 500 cars in the 1930s which many started on the front row. In addition, Dreyer constructed championship-winning sprint cars and midgets as well as quarter midgets

https://motorsports.nbcsports.com/2020/04/17/dreyer-reinbold-keeps-busy-with-other-projects-during-pandemic

Great way to draw in some walk up customers!

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by.428585/page-6346

fixing them up to sell them... does that make sense? If there is no interested buyers after you've wasted a fortune restoring a vehicle (bad choice, or economic turnabout ala 2008), you're stuck with a vehicle you don't want, and broke

This was brought to Essen Techno Classic 2016, just to drum up interest, free publicity, and potential buyers

http://www.ride-and-read.com/2016/04/techno-classica-essen-2016-pre-view.html

1953 Parade of Progress

http://oldcarbrochures.org/NA/GM-Corporate-and-Concepts/1953-GM-Parade-of-Progress-Folder/

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/108731209478234/?fref=nf  via  https://gmheritagecenter.com/gm-heritage-archive/Featured_Innovations/1936_Parade_of_Progress.html



Thanks Doug and Steve!

It turns out a photo gallery of Ron Pratte's collection has been online since 2009

And I did not know his Futurliner had the Pontiac Bonneville concept show car

Full gallery at https://www.flickr.com/photos/120085489@N03/sets/72157642259265175/

A Futurliner is at SEMA!

a Futurliner came to the Art Center College of Pasadena annual car show today, they sure do bring in some terrific surprises every year

the Fido Futureliner, purchased from GM for 17 thou, sold later at auction for 4.3 million

photo found on http://truquetructruk.tumblr.com,

the number 11 Futureliner was bought by a consortium, used to advertise a cell phone company.

information about the Futureliners can be found at http://www.examiner.com/article/the-gm-futurliner-a-poignant-reminder-of-a-bygone-era

Concept and prototype cars

1941 Chrysler Newport Dual Cowl Phaeton

1941 Thunderbolt
Credit for the design goes to Alex Tremulis

1951 Buick the XP 300

1955 Chevrolet Biscayne

1954 Packard Panther Daytona

1954 Pontiac Bonneville

1956 Chevrolet Impala

I think the above is a Gaylord

 above,
http://lost-show-cars.blogspot.com http://www.carstyling.ru/en/cars.1954_Oldsmobile_Cutlass.html http://history.gmheritagecenter.com/wiki/index.php/1954_Oldsmobile_Cutlass_Concept

 1954 Mercury Monterey XM 800

Above, Chrysler Ghia Diablo

above, a 1956 410 SuperAmerica by Ghia that Storm Bringer knew
http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/4566/Ferrari-410-SuperAmerica-Ghia-Coupe.html http://www.carstyling.ru/ru/car/1956_ferrari_410_superamerica/

1954 DeSoto Adventurer

Diamond T Doodlebug, one of my favorite trucks

All from among the huge variety of cool cars and pre-1980's American culture on http://fifties50s.blogspot.com