{"id":6957,"date":"2015-01-23T11:24:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T11:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bodyshop.ie\/?p=6957"},"modified":"2015-01-23T11:24:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T11:24:37","slug":"gm-futurliner-bus-sells-for-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bodyshop.ie\/index.php\/gm-futurliner-bus-sells-for-millions\/6957","title":{"rendered":"GM Futurliner bus sells for millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bodyshop personnel with an eye for space, shape and form cannot but admire this 1950 GM Futurliner, which went under the gavel recently and netted its owner a cool $4 million.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodyshop.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Futurliner.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6958\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bodyshop.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Futurliner.png\" alt=\"Futurliner\" width=\"615\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bodyshop.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Futurliner.png 615w, https:\/\/www.bodyshop.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Futurliner-300x173.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a>This pristine example drew a substantial amount of fanfare when it went up for auction at the 2015\u00a0Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale\u00a0event recently.<\/p>\n<p>The Futurliners originally drew power from a four-cylinder diesel engine; however this bus was restored and given a livelier beating heart in the form of a 400ci GM truck engine.<\/p>\n<p>This example came up for auction in 2006 and in quite the memorable fashion. The owner had been hoping to get more than $600,000 for the brute. It hammered for a formidable $4.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bodyshop personnel with an eye for space, shape and form cannot but admire this 1950 GM Futurliner, which went under the gavel recently and netted its owner a cool $4 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[403,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-irish-news","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>GM Futurliner bus sells for millions - Bodyshop.ie<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bodyshop.ie\/index.php\/gm-futurliner-bus-sells-for-millions\/6957\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GM Futurliner bus sells for millions - 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