TransGlobal, an automotive design and manufacturing company located in Livonia, was awarded a contract to restore eight 1930s vintage tour buses for Yellowstone National Park.
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It has been a long journey for the buses, which were auctioned in the 1960s and wound up in different parts of the country. An Alaskan tour company, Skagway Streetcar Co., collected eight of the buses over a 10-year period for its use before Xanterra Parks and Resorts, the company that has the contract to operate lodging, restaurants and tours in Yellowstone, made an offer for the buses -- $38,000 -- in 2001.
Xanterra awarded TransGlobal the $1.9-million contract last July.
"We're ecstatically happy they're back where they belong," said Gayla Hites, who owns Skagway Streetcar with her husband, Steven Hites.
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