Editing Autostade (section)

== Design and financing ==
The Autostade was built in preparation for the 1967 [[World's Fair]], [[Expo 67]] as a venue for several events including the World Music Festival and the Rodeo Show. It was designed by architects [[Victor Prus]] and [[Maurice Desnoyers]]. With a [[seating capacity]] of 33,172,<ref name="CFLdb">{{citation|title=Autostade in Montreal|url=https://stats.cfldb.ca/stadium/autostade|work=CFLdb |access-date=14 December 2016}}</ref> the stadium is best remembered for its odd shape: to allow the stadium to be dismantled and re-erected on a new site if required, the architects employed a segmental structural system comprising 19 independent but linked pre-cast concrete grandstands, each 40 seats wide, arranged around the central field.

The stadium was financed by donations from the five major auto manufacturers in Canada at the time: [[American Motors]], [[Chrysler]], [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]], [[General Motors]], and [[Volvo Cars|Volvo]], hence its name.