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Re: [oletrucks] futureliner

To: "Steve Hanberg" <steve@OldSub.com>,
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] futureliner
From: "Bob KNOTTS" <raknotts@qwest.net>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 21:40:55 -0700
But you'd sell to all of us at cost, right?!!!! Bob K in PHX, AZ.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Hanberg" <steve@OldSub.com>
To: "william moldenhauer" <wmh678@worldnet.att.net>;
<oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] futureliner


> >> I guess if we were all millionaires there would not be any junkyards!
>
> Well given the chance I'd own all of them.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "william moldenhauer" <wmh678@worldnet.att.net>
> To: <mark@noakes.com>; <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 7:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [oletrucks] futureliner
>
>
> I think it would make a good collective project
> the first thing to do would be to get the drive train and any frame work
> done and then sell to someone who would do the body work and then on to
some
> one would etc etc etc.....
> I'm sure the $19,500 is a decent price but to much work for a couple of
guys
> to tackle.
> I guess if we were all millionaires there would not be any junkyards!
> Bill   48'chevy pick-up
> Channahon,Ill.
> website
> www.hotrodstogo.com
> Go ahead and take risks....just be sure that everything
>  will turn out OK.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <mark@noakes.com>
> To: <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 2:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [oletrucks] futureliner
>
>
> > Agreed that only someone with deep pockets could afford to restore one
of
> these.  The
> > museum surely knows about this one; they seemed to be tracking all of
the
> remaining
> > vehicles.
> >
> > My dad was in both the GM Parade of Progress and Motorama shows in the
> early 50s and
> > provided one block of photos to the museum web site.
> >
> > Everyone that presented for the show also worked setup and
transportation.
> He mostly
> > drove a tractor trailer but sometimes drove a Futurliner.  They were
> finicky, slow
> > (about 45mph), hot, and I gather the visibility and brakes weren't too
> good as they
> > sometimes ran into each other in the caravan.
> >
> > Incredibly cool looking though with many interesting ideas; I'd love to
> have one
> > restored for a RV...if I were a millionaire....
> >
> > Mark Noakes
> >
> > On Sun, 20 Apr 2003 12:30:51 -0500, "G. L. Perry" wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Bill, you need to transfer this link to the Nat. truck Museum in
Auburn.
> > > They are doing one now in MI, maybe they would like it or have someone
> who
> > > would. Only $19,500?? No pix, maybe real bad??! Lot of weird stuff in
> > > driveline if you've been following the Museum's build at all.
Everything
> > > metal ob body would have to be "built" as no parts were mass-produced.
> Out
> > > of my league for sure!
> > >
> > > G. L. Perry
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "william moldenhauer" <wmh678@worldnet.att.net>
> > > To: "OleTrucks" <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> > > Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 9:40 AM
> > > Subject: [oletrucks] futureliner
> > >
> > >
> > > > I know we had this discussion a while back but I just found one for
> sale
> > > > there were only 12 built so they are rare as hens teeth
> > > > http://www.busesonline.com/buses/TKNo.7R.html
> > > > Bill   48'chevy pick-up
> > > > Channahon,Ill.
> > > > website
> > > > www.hotrodstogo.com
> > > > Go ahead and take risks....just be sure that everything
> > > >  will turn out OK.
> > > > oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and
> 1959
> > > oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and
1959
> > oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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