
Muscle Car Ranch
Season 3 Episode 1 | 8m 59sVideo has Closed Captions
The Muscle Car Ranch pays tribute to chrome, cubic inches, big engines and two decades of sign art.
Oklahoma is well known for its cattle ranches but one ranch in particular has growing reputation for its highly respected "horse power." The Muscle Car Ranch, in Chickasha, is a tribute to chrome, cubic inches, big engines and two decades of art dedicated to muscle cars. Curtis Hart has created the world he loves where muscle cars continue to influence generations.
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Muscle Car Ranch
Season 3 Episode 1 | 8m 59sVideo has Closed Captions
Oklahoma is well known for its cattle ranches but one ranch in particular has growing reputation for its highly respected "horse power." The Muscle Car Ranch, in Chickasha, is a tribute to chrome, cubic inches, big engines and two decades of art dedicated to muscle cars. Curtis Hart has created the world he loves where muscle cars continue to influence generations.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipFor 30 years, the rolling highways of Oklahoma have been the canvas for Curtis Heart's passion of restoring and preserving a special segment of American nostalgia and automotive history.
His love for the four wheeled stallions of the 60s and 70s has created one of the most popular gathering places for car enthusiasts in the country.
Near his beloved route 66, our Curtis Hart, 70 acres of chrome carburetors and classic art dedicated to a special machine.
Hoist Queen, what are you doing?
Oh, girl, you wanna go swimming?
Where's your stick at?
Where's your stick at?
Where's your stick at?
Now my name is Curtis Hart, down at the muscle car ranch, Chickashaw.
And people are really into the old cars, you know, especially muscle cars.
They just keep getting more popular.
That's the wingnut.
And that intake drones of, the 60s.
The drag cars of the past.
I mean, they're they're still there all over the nation, running as we speak.
People romanticize about that air.
But, for all reason, they show another segment in our early history as a nation unbelievable.
Driving, 427, 435 horse.
396.
375.
Horse 446.
Back 429 Ford’s and all that stuff.
And I'm leaving out a bunch that those motors couldn't turn properly.
They're unreal.
They're workers.
That, The muscle cars of the 60s.
I love the 50s car, well Muscle cars go back into the 50s.
People didn't just create horsepower.
It's been around a long time.
It's going to be around is America's the biggest horsepower junkies there are.
Signs are, you know, I always thought they’re a a work of are just the way they are, you know?
What did you drive past in every town?
What did you what did you view what station do you pull and you pull into a standard a mobile gas?
Did you drive by a maytag sign that, Alice Chalmers tractor neon sign of patio rail or Chevrolet boat?
It was 30ft.
I mean, this sign probably dates back to 40s or late 40s, early 50s Oklahoma City landmark.
It was on Classen.
Oh, this was on the 23rd, 23rd and Classen in Oklahoma City.
We've got quite a few old landmark signs from Oklahoma City right over here.
Here's that charcoal patio, charcoal hamburgers, which was on Classen and and 50th for, I don't know, probably from the 40s.
We acquired that to, the owner not wanting to see it scrapped and put up preserved.
We spent probably 40 hours getting that one shape and putting it up.
It's about 40 50ft to the top of it.
You know, we're sitting right here in a diner that was produced in 1940s.
They were built in Kansas, shipped all over the country and, set up in towns.
And this here was, piece of, Chickashaw history.
It was at the Oklahoma College for women in the 40s.
And as a, proprietor, he was named as row breeze and, row had rows.
Rose cafe on, Choctaw on Chickasha, and this, breeze's diner set across from the Oklahoma College for women and a lot of histories, right?
I mean, I've talked to 30 people that came through here just to sit down and go.
I cooked in here.
I worked in here as a child in their 50s, 60 years old and 70, and see that that much history just in this one building.
Ever heard people go here?
Their stories are about what they're standing on or looking at or pointing at.
And that's what I'm trying to create in the 70 acres, which I'm on, will eventually all be wrapped in porcelain neon signs.
Have you got a lot more meter and blocks at home?
I'll be bringing all of that.
We'll start kicking around the idea of, a swap meet.
You know, like, Chickashaw.
It had one that started out at 69 Antique Auto Club.
Good mates, this spring.
And also.
But I just saw a little different angle, a little different way of advertising and TV and radio and, a lot of fliers and a lot of walking and talking.
And I probably always love to see people get together having a good time, smiling face with no problems.
We were, referred to in a write up as the Woodstock of car meets and the just from who came.
All the time was.
What did you do?
You showed all these.
Oh, don't we need someone to go with, you know, somebody to go.
Oh, my God.
And what?
What a trip down memory lane be without hot tunes from cool groups like the Beach Boys, Love and Spoonful, Three Dog Night and on this summer evening, Jefferson Airplane, someone be.
You know, we've done ten years of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame groups, and they're from grass roots bird Spalding, writer, Jefferson Starship.
We've been here twice.
Original airplane founding members.
We do some music entertainment groups here that are up and coming and probably going to do great things.
Sure wanted to host a showcase, a place that would, represent those cars, which I truly love.
I guess it's what I looked up to, you know, it's, it's a time that America was definitely on top.
They were landing on the moon, and so were the cars.


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