We've had a thing for lowriders from the first time we saw a stoplight bounce-off between mid-sixties Chevy coupes. It was during the opening-credits sequence of the 1970's TV show, "Chico and the Man," ...
... which, along with building a fort out of sofa cushions, highlighted our pre-bedtime friday evenings, that we first saw four tons of groaning metal becoming unhinged from gravity. It scared the shit out of us. Ignorant of cultural trends or immigration patterning, not to mention hydraulics systems, we spent many evenings in our pillow fort wondering why there were no lowriders in the New York suburbs.
For cultural studies geeks, for whom lowriders represent a cultural flashpoint around which to craft a hypothesis on Chicano culture in the 20th century, click the first link. For the rest, choose the second — pure eye candy from the recent 2004 Lowrider Magazine Evolution Tour Tarheel State show in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Lowrider Cruising Spaces by Ben Chappell — PDF [Bridgewater.edu via KidDigIt]
Charlotte [Lowrider Magazine]