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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 ...
Lowrider owners wanted everyone to see the intricate details of the artwork on the car and the stylized look of their vehicle. “Lowriding became a public performance.
An early "true" vintage Cal-Style Volkswagen, built by Robert Velis in 1982 (Huntington Park, southeast LA, 1983)A Cal-Style VW is a lowrider influenced vintage Volkswagen, that for style and cruising was lowered to the extreme in the manner called "dumped" "slammed" or "laid out".
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 car's appearance was designed by Jack Chisenhall and Larry Erickson. [1] It is acclaimed as one of the great expressions of automotive customization. [ 2 ] Drawing inspiration from the lead sleds and Mercury Eights of the 1950s, CadZZilla attracted considerable attention.
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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.
For a while, lowrider car cruising kind of stopped happening throughout the city, but it's started to come back — at Elysian Park now, on the weekends, you'll see a lot of lowrider car shows ...