{"id":360,"date":"2010-09-12T15:49:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T22:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/?p=360"},"modified":"2010-09-12T15:49:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T22:49:42","slug":"day-43-statues-and-more-antique-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/2010\/09\/12\/day-43-statues-and-more-antique-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 43 – Statues and more antique cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sept 12th<\/p>\n

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"Barbie" parked on the street<\/p><\/div>\n

I am starting to write this while sitting in the GMC on a city street and within sight of the Auburn, Indiana town square.\u00a0 The WiFi signal I am using is being provided for free by the town of Auburn.\u00a0 I don’t know the details but the guy at the camp ground about 5 miles away on the other side of the highway said it is available there too.\u00a0 We are really starting to like Indiana.<\/p>\n

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"Turn of the Century"<\/p><\/div>\n

So far today we have toured the town – it is pretty small – and taken photos of many of the sculptures in the “Sculptures on the Square” exhibit.\u00a0 This is the last weekend that they will be exhibited and there is a walk\/run event going on in town so there are quite a few other people doing the same thing as we are.\u00a0 As you will see in the photos, there was a woman and her daughter that were taking posed photos at each of the statues – she, the mother, is in several of my photos – I couldn’t resist taking her picture too.\u00a0 It is the mom’s idea, she wants to outdo the daughter who did the same thing at the last exhibit three years ago.<\/p>\n

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1927 International Harvester<\/p><\/div>\n

After the sculpture visit we headed for NATMUS – the National Auto and Truck Museum which is right behind the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg museum and on the same property.\u00a0 It is an interesting and pretty typical auto museum except that it displays heavy trucks like semi-tractors, and older heavy duty work trucks.\u00a0 They are trying to specialize in the old International Harvester brand of trucks since that was made in this area but almost gone now.<\/p>\n

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GM Futurliner<\/p><\/div>\n

For the GMCers that read this, there was a little exhibit about the GM Futurliner – that was the huge motorhome-like vehicle that GM used to provide a traveling marketing show.\u00a0 Futurliner #10 was donated to the museum in about 1996 and was pretty much a basket case.\u00a0 The museum did not have room for such a large vehicle and, in 1999, a man named Don Mayton wanted to take on the restoration job as a volunteer project. They made an arrangement they call their “Partner Program”.\u00a0 The museum owns the Futurliner but it is in Michigan and has been restored with the help of lots of folks.\u00a0 Visit their web site at www.futurliner.org<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Here is a slide show of the rest of the photos from Auburn today.\u00a0 Don’t forget to click the little box at the bottom right so you can get a better look at the photo.\n\n

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