#Dodge Engine

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Muscle 1970

Muscle Cars

Pony Cars

Utes

Sports Cars

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ok

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This video is doing numbers on TikTok, but I wanted to share it here because I am so proud. The man being featured is my uncle Steve Smith.

Steve has been building drag racers & custom cars his entire life.

My grandma before passing away would tell the story of how when he was 10 or 11 years old - she came home to him taking apart the engine in her secondary vehicle (reserved for fancy outings).

She asked him why & he said he wanted to know how it worked outside of a schematic. & she told him that as long as he put it back together the way he found it, it was fine by her. & what's more - he put it back together from memory without even looking at a diagram!

If anything went wrong with the car, my grandma had him fix the car & it was that way until my grandma passed away. She never paid for a mechanic in her life again.

When Steve was a teenager he spent most of his time at the OKC Racetrack & raced with drag racers he built himself.

Also, as a teen he won the Bethany, OK wheelie championship by riding over a mile nonstop on his motorcycle on a single wheelie position.

All throughout my childhood he always had cars around in various stages of fixing up.

The city of Bethany refused to sell him the property next to his house to open his own auto garage. He had worked for Diffee Motors most of my life up until then. So he moved out in the country & opened his own garage.

Steve has been on several mainstream auto shows being featured for his custom work. He also built a custom car for one of the guys on Duck Dynasty. He was also offered a permanent role on an auto TV show, but he turned it down because it required moving out of state.

My uncle Steve is one of the sweetest, kindest & most generous people you will ever meet in your lifetime. He's as smart as a whip, has never met a stranger & gives the best hugs!

It just makes me so happy to see him getting the recognition he deserves.

The picture below is of him at a family function sitting next to his wife, Nancy.

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The push-buton PowerFlite automatic transmission stalk, steering wheel and gauge details from the Dodge Custom Royal sedan brochure - 1956.

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Oomf did it first but I had to put my own spin on it

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Splodge moments

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Evil guy and his goofy sillies

Originally drawn June, 2020

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Merry Christmas

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A load of diesels!

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When you stumble upon a diesel and two steam engines who definitely absolutely 100% bought by the Fat Controller and not stowaways from Rotherham at all where would you get that idea???

(U can't judge Lady u aren't owned by the railway either)

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As I mentioned in the tags of this post: pictures of our old steam engine and Caboose that are now decorative!

The caboose was given a fresh coat of paint and seemingly a good deep clean this last year(she was looking a bit rough from 2013 to 2023 with chipping paint and spiderwebs)

I use to play in that red caboose as a kid whenever mom would let my sibling and I, always having to be mindful of the copious amounts of spiderwebs it always seemed to have.

The old “freight car”, people use to be able to ride on when it was a functioning train, is open near the locomotive for function and they’ve very logically blocked off the actual locomotive controls years(if not decades) ago.

There are so many good memories associated with this little train by the information centre.

But yeah, it’s service as a functioning train was stopped before I was born because the caboose was considered too dangerous. But my mom grew up in town and said that it use to circle the waterfront and whistle, the caboose operator sometimes giving information as a tour guide.

Bonus of the old hangar I also mentioned in the other post!

Its right by the civic centre and walking paths near the river (which coincidentally is a river some nautical battles took place in in the 1700’s)

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The Good Time Trio 😌✨

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Rear interior seating detail from the Dodge Custom Royal sedan brochure - 1956.

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In the late 60's, Trenton Engine Plant marked their 7 millionth engine, making about 750,000 440's and over 3 million 383's in total

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1983 Dodge Daytona Turbo Z Pace Car

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