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VANAMAL

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Old GM truck
« on: May 31, 2013, 10:29:04 AM »
Spotted this at reefer city while gassing up. Someone said it was 1948 and there were only 12 made. The small panel at the front opens up and a set of stairs goes up to te cab
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Re: Old GM truck
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2013, 10:32:59 AM »
Very cool Van :2vrolijk_21: I noticed one day watching Storage Wars Barry has several cool old vehicles and one was that old Ford truck like you were looking for awhile back.
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Re: Old GM truck
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2013, 12:40:18 PM »
Very Nice !!!!
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Re: Old GM truck
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2013, 12:47:02 PM »
Looks like something from the Motorama.
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Re: Old GM truck
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2013, 02:00:32 PM »

12 Futurliners were built. GM first constructed the coaches in 1940 to help move its mobile marketing campaign from city to city, but updated the coaches in 1953 for a revived fair.  Built by GM’s Truck & Coach division in Pontiac, Michigan, Futurliners measured in at 33 feet long, 8 feet wide, almost 12 feet tall, and tipped the scales at 30,000 pounds. Despite the heft, the updated Futurliners used only GMC’s 302-cubic-inch I-6 for power.

I believe a restored one sits in Auburn Indiana at one of the auto museums.  I was inside one at Coker tires a few years back when they had it on display. 

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Re: Old GM truck
« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2013, 02:23:00 PM »
He is a web site for additional information/pictures/etc:

http://www.futurliner.com/
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Re: Old GM truck
« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2013, 02:33:41 PM »
Quote from: VANAMAL on May 31, 2013, 10:29:04 AM
Spotted this at reefer city while gassing up. Someone said it was 1948 and there were only 12 made. The small panel at the front opens up and a set of stairs goes up to te cab

Reefer City?  WTF, Vanamal?  Getting some meds?
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Re: Old GM truck
« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2013, 08:06:00 PM »
Quote from: Panhead_Jimmy on May 31, 2013, 02:33:41 PM
Reefer City?  WTF, Vanamal?  Getting some meds?


 It's a California thing Jimmy......Very cool truck Van, you knew I would love it.
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Re: Old GM truck
« Reply #8 on: May 31, 2013, 08:29:15 PM »
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Re: Old GM truck
« Reply #9 on: June 01, 2013, 09:06:52 AM »
a guy in so cal had an unrestored one a few years back was asking $600,000. 00 for it
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Re: Old GM truck
« Reply #10 on: June 03, 2013, 05:59:37 PM »
I think it is one of the futurama trucks from late 40's early 50's.  They sold one at the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction a couple years back for a whole lotta $$.
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Re: Old GM truck
« Reply #11 on: June 04, 2013, 07:23:00 AM »
Didn't they use the same one or something similar in the movie Real Steel?
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Re: Old GM truck
« Reply #12 on: June 04, 2013, 07:55:50 AM »
Quote from: Panhead_Jimmy on May 31, 2013, 02:33:41 PM
Reefer City?  WTF, Vanamal?  Getting some meds?

Oh yeah!  That's what they call it in CA!

A nice find Van!
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Re: Old GM truck
« Reply #13 on: June 04, 2013, 12:05:20 PM »
Quote from: Panhead_Jimmy on May 31, 2013, 02:33:41 PM
Reefer City?  WTF, Vanamal?  Getting some meds?

Same thing I was thinking,  good thing he got a picture. 

Nice pic by the way. 
That is one thing I do need to carry on the bike is a good camera.  The cell phone just don't doesn't do a good enough job for me.   It works but would like a good one.  Sure see some really cool stuff on rides that most people don't see or are in to much of a hurry to actually look at. 
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