When the lights go up at today's huge lowrider shows ... We lowered the rear springs, had fender skirts, two side pipes. It was mostly cosmetic stuff in those days. You had to have two spotlights ...

Amongst over a hundred classic lowriders lined up on Loomis Street in the Pilsen neighborhood, on Chicago’s Lower West Side, for the Slow and Low Community Lowrider Festival, one baby blue 1950 ...

head of the San Francisco Lowrider Council. The trunk of Hernandez's 1964 gold Chevy Impala has 10 batteries to feed the hydraulic system, which makes his car rock from side to side, back and ...

When I was a teenager, cruising the streets of northern Indiana was a rite of passage. Cars slowly rolled by as we blasted music through open windows and hollered at people we knew (and wanted to ...

Vanderslice even added a unique feature: LED lights embedded in the paint that light up, the bright spots in his life on the other side. Through his reporting, Whitaker found lowrider culture has ...

Many people mistakenly blame lowriders for side shows, revving engines and creating tire marks, he said. But that’s a contrast to what actually happens at lowrider events. The gatherings are ...

The 1980s brought more upscale fare for those who wanted to push a classier lowrider down the block. Cadillac had fallen on hard times during the ’70s as its prestige was pushed to the side by ...