How can you put a price tag on someone's dream? This seems to be the case for most builds today, as the cost of building a Lowrider can sometimes become the main obstacle for a would-be builder to ...

When Japanese painter, Takahiko Izawa, was first exposed lowriders in high school, he was immediately drawn to the custom paint aspect of these works of art. Scanning through the pages ...

Cruise low and get heads turning. That was the purpose of lowriding in the first place, starting in the post-war era in Southern California, among the Mexican-American community, before it turned into ...

The lowrider car culture originated in Los Angeles in the mid-to-late 1940s, but it didn't really take off until the 1950s. And you might not know it, but General Motors played a key role. The fact ...

Any enthusiast will be well aware that cars can be much more than simply a mode of transport. New York's MoMA held its first exhibition of automobiles in 1951, showcasing eight models that the ...

A Smithsonian traveling exhibition maps the family ties and ingenuity behind lowriders—from post-World War II Chicano pride on boulevards to global car shows Aurora Martínez - Staff Contributor On ...

Think of the biggest and baddest Chevys, Buicks, and Cadillacs. One of the most beautiful things about lowrider culture is it allows the ultimate expression of individuality across an automotive ...