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Nazi Lowriders are known to have gone to war with the Cripps of Kern County, Southern California and of Los Angeles County, Southern California throughout the 1980s and the early to mid 1990s where there were numerous responses to these incidents, combats and altercations covered by Los Angeles, Southern California news stations and Kern County ...
A lowrider or low rider is a customized car with a lowered body that emerged among Mexican American youth in the 1940s. [3] Lowrider also refers to the driver of the car and their participation in lowrider car clubs , which remain a part of Chicano culture and have since expanded internationally.
Jesse Valadez was a Mexican American lowrider and artist based in East Los Angeles who became known as a major figure in lowriding, a cultural practice among Chicanos that he helped pioneer.
Historically, car clubs (groups of people who share a love for custom cars and a passion for lowriding) have been predominantly led by men, with the exception of a few, such as Lady Bugs Car Club ...
The new exhibit, "Best in Low," at the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles is not the museum's first look at lowriders, but it is its best. Walking through the gallery is like visiting the gemstone ...
The Cal-Style VW originated in the streets of Los Angeles in the late 1970s, when the first generation of teens from Latino neighborhoods veered away from the Low Riders that at the time were associated with gangs and criminal activity, and instead customized their economical VWs into lowriders for the cruising and teen subculture. [1]
A Lowrider Club (C.C.) is an organized car club of lowriders who follow a series of traditional rules for participation, including a group of elected officers; a probationary period for new members and the wearing of a specific club patch or shirt.
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