 Its own attempts to determine who had done so were unsuccessful.The newspaper found that after being built at Ford's Kentucky Truck Assembly, the vehicle was shipped and sold new at a dealership in St. Charles, Missouri; who bought it was unknown as the dealership does not keep sales records for longer than a decade.After American auto manufacturers stopped making limousines themselves in the 1960s, a cottage industry of expanders emerged, and most of them are based either in Southern California or around Springfield, Missouri, the latter a three-and-a-half-hour drive from St. Charles.