An interesting article in the April 1952 Motor Trend magazine is about the Cabalero show cars. The article states: "For the connoisseur of something or other, Kaiser has built what must be the maddest interior of this year. Termed "Caballero" in the publicity releases, the car utilizes the pelts from 20 Holstein-Friesian calves, decorated with hammered silver. Three ranking brains collaborated on this and the other five products in this series-Veepee H. V. Lindberg, senior KF stylist, E.H. Daniels and Carl Spencer, color stylist. There are two more Caballeros-one upholstered in Palamino, the other in Arabian stallion. Worth about $15,000 are the Explorer, Safari, and South Seas. The Explorer, polar type, is finished in polar bear skins and trimmed in mouton. The Safari, darkest Africa's contribution carries zebra, lion and lioness skins. And the South Seas comes with rush reeds, rattan and pandanus plant interior. KF has sold four of the six already. The stylists are pleased with the result and hint that you may see some variations of the sumptuous ***tet in a future stock production." It seems that the results of this study were the Dragons of 1953. I thought that there were only four of those cars made and was not aware of three kinds of Caballeros. I read somewhere that after storage one of the cars smelled so bad from rotting skins that the complete interior was removed. At least one of the cars has survived.
