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.
Good morning American dad fans!! :3 I’ve been fixated on this show for like 4 months. Idk what it is but adult cartoons always get me good 😭
I’ve also drawn some art of the characters but I didn’t want to accidentally turn this into an American dad blog so I haven’t shared em’. As a treat I’ll post this too
“Steve Smith and former Monkee Peter Tork, The Red Creek, Rochester, New York, 1985″ - ripopmusic.org
“A while ago, an ad appeared in a newspaper here offering music lessons for $30 an hour. Peter Tork placed that ad and, yes, he gives music lessons. He is a genuine talent: a multi-instrumentalist; and a heck of a nice chap. […]
Peter Tork is a VERY serious man heavily into spirituality and humanity. And he can be a happy-go-lucky, joking, laugh-a-minute fellow. […]
So, you’re 44 now, is that good?
‘It’s OK. Sure my knees aren’t as wonderful as they used to be. But the other day I pounded down the pavement after a bus, and it felt like I was flying. Like I was eight. Um. My back’s going. My hair’s falling out. I don’t have any teeth left. My head fell off last night, which was kind of annoying. I left my spleen on a train last week. Basically, I’m falling to pieces but I feel simply wonderful.’ […] I started getting the idea that this guy is kind of genuine; sincere, the real thing.” - article by John Elder, Countdown, April 1987 (x)