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A lowrider or low rider is a customized car with a lowered body that emerged among African American & 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 African American Hip Hop culture & Chicano culture and have since expanded internationally.
Car hydraulics are equipment installed in an automobile that allows for a dynamic adjustment in height of the vehicle. These suspension modifications are often placed in a lowrider, i.e., a vehicle modified to lower its ground clearance below that of its original design.
As the popularity of the feature increased, lowrider owners designed vehicles they could raise and lower with a flip of a switch inside the vehicle, making the vehicle appear to bounce.
Lowrider was an American automobile magazine, focusing almost exclusively on the style known as a lowrider. It first appeared in 1977, produced out of San Jose, California , by a trio of San Jose State students.
Opinion of The Fresno Bee Editorial Board: The move is a nod to the city’s Latino population.
Lowriders, classic or vintage model cars that have been modified to sit as close to the ground as possible through a variety of customization techniques, became an integral part of Chicano culture ...
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.
Here's what effective federal rules around autonomous vehicles could look like, according to a former DOT inspector general