Donald Stinebaugh's Leata Cabalero
An online auto reviewer recently claimed that the all-time lousiest vehicle was made in 1977 – in Post Falls. “This is the Leata Cabalero,” wrote Brendan McAleer in the March 22 installment of The Drive, “and it is probably the worst automobile in America.”
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FILE – Here is the new four-passenger Leata Cabalero, the second auto model produced by Stinebaugh Manufacturing Co. of Post Falls in this 1976 photo. Handcrafted and hand-built of steel and fiberglass, it has a four-cylinder engine with cast iron block. Gary L. Gockley, sales manager, says the company has phased out the first model of the Leata after selling several hundred. Don E. Stinebaugh, president of the firm, and his sons design the small cars.
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FILE – In this 1975 photo, Donald E. Stinebaugh, president of Stinebaugh Manufacturing Company of Post Falls, looks at the car he designed and built.
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FILE – Pictured here is the interior of a Leata automobile produced by Stinebaugh Manufacturing Company in 1975.
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FILE – Pictured here is a Leata automobile produced by Stinebaugh Manufacturing Company in 1975.
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