Dunno a thing about cars, machinery or politics...but I know the name King Ranch. There've actually been 2, which may or may not be related, one in Hawaii and one in Texas. Both are famous for raising some of the finest American Quarter Horses ever bred. The one in Texas may have been the home of Poco Bueno iirc, and PB was one of those stallions who started an equine dynasty that is still extremely popular to this day.
AWESOME rich-folk toy, that car! And if it actually could rip across the rough Texas back country while looking like that...
wow.
As an aside...the info says "painted pony-skin rug". The one shot looking down on the interior shows said rug. If it's not a hair-on skin, whoever painted it did a great job of getting the pattern right...those are the kind of spots most often seen on "sabino" or Dominant White pinto horses, and horse-hide was in much more common use back then because we not only felt very differently about livestock as a culture back then, we didn't have NEARLY as many. Back in Poco Bueno's day (40s-early 50s I think) there had only ever been a few thousand registered American Quarter Horses. Now they're long past 500K and may have already registered their one millionth foal since the studbook was created. Cars n horses...American icons, American dreams
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