The Comanche Truck; the Comanche Empire

 

From Reid Cunningham: Manchester NH.  I thought this an interesting contrast to the blue Comanche Pickup I sent earlier this year and you posted.  That one was a stripped base model.  A base model two wheel drive, stick shift, 4 cylinder (my guess since no badge for the 4.0 six), steel wheels and zero frills.  This the other end of the scale.  4WD, higher grade trim, automatic, dressed up body and more.  I am imagining them on the same lot, but at opposite ends of the line of pickups.  (A sign of my madness is I like the blue one more).

AL posted a 1990 Comache pickup from Virginia a while back.And we've previously noted  Pekka Hamalainen's wonderful book, Comanche Empire and learned how the llano estaduco--and 1000's of sq. miles of shortgrass plains east of the Rio Grande Valley and Spanish New Mexico--was dominated from the mid-18th to mid-19th century by the Comanche, a powerful empire of their own once they got horses and iron and good guns. 

H and I found ourselves watching John Wayne in The Comancheros the other night.