#custom car

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Colani Trabant Universal, 2001. German aerodynamicist Luigi Colani (pictured) designed a new front end that could be retrofitted to the Trabant 601 Universal (wagon). The kit was available for €980 though I'm unclear how many were sold

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57 Lincoln Continental Mark II

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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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1969 Ringbrothers Dodge Charger Tusk, 2023. Another of the Wisconsin-based tuners projects for this years SEMA is a restomod 2nd generation Charger that has been repowerd with a 1000hp 6.2-liter supercharged Hellephant V8. The car has been rebuilt around a custom chassis from Roadster Shop

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1969 Dodge Charger

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 1967 Dodge Deora custom truck. (Yes, there's a Hot Wheels version.)

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