It’s official: No. 10 of the Futurliners–one of 12 oversized, streamlined buses General Motors built to haul its traveling promotional Parade of Progress shows in the 1940s and 1950s–is up for sale.

Where? Where else? eBay. The pricetag? There’s already one bid, at $950,000, so your price will be anywhere north of $950,100. Is it worth it? Depends.

Only four Futurliners are thought to survive, but suffice it to say that they were the last word in 1940s streamline design. Taller than your average bus, the driver looked out onto a sea of drab Depression-era cars through one of the first bubble windshields ever driven down the street.

More than a wrap-around windshield, this thing went much farther back. Exit was down stairs and through a door to the right of the nose, your path possibly lit from outside by the beast’s row of headlights: quad lights, four across.

Clad with stainless steel ribbing and chrome, this behemoth was a sad sight when uncovered, but now –rolling on custom-poured whitewall tires, it’s, well, it’s rolling.

Power comes courtesy of a stovebolt–a relatively stock 1940s or 1950s-era Chevrolet or GMC six-cylinder engine (similar to the first-generation Corvette).

Top speed is somewhere more than 45 miles per hour–but again, this was the 1940s. Cars didn’t go that fast. No one needed to go fast yet. You were supposed to enjoy the journey, or else to just stay home and work hard.

The Futurliner is a relic from those times, its interior–originally used for hauling and stationary display–restored to include a bar.

And if the outside looks familiar, consider that Batman: The Animated Series used the Futurliner as inspiration for its SWAT team vans. Good place to start.

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