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Video: Hydraulic Lowrider Cars Defy Gravity
A car shop in California USA is creating custom lowrider cars that defy gravity. With just a flick of a switch, 3,000 pounds of metal bounces up and down eight feet in the air. Alex Tuason, 25, builds these cars at his father’s shop, Hoppo’s Custom Suspension Works in Ontario, California. Alex removes the coil…
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Video: Clip from “LOWRIDER History of Hydraulics”
Mini-Trucks/Lowriders Hydraulics Bed Spinning. Enjoy this classic footage.
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Article: Anatomy Of A Lowrider-The Standards, The Art, The Technology
Arevalo is often a judge at competitions and explains that there’s a right way to display a lowrider. The rims and tires have to be authentic. They have to be always clean, always nice. The lowrider has to have hydraulic switches. All of the chrome has been polished and restored. The undercar has to be…
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Article: The Top Oldies Songs We’d Cruise To In A Lowrider
“I bought my first Impala in 1980 when I was in high school. We would spend most of our time working on our cars and listening to oldies,” Tino recalled. Lowriders and oldies music go hand-in-hand. Thankfully, the culture has helped keep these songs and various genres alive: What Chicanos refer to as lowrider oldies…
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Article: Main Street Showdown – Espanola, New Mexico
The northern New Mexico town of Española is located just north of Santa Fe, between Los Alamos and Taos. Approximately 10,000 people live in the town that was established in 1598 by Spanish conquistador Don Juan de Oñate. Being surrounded by historic attractions and having its own arts community, Española is a must-visit tourist stop…
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Article: In Search of the Electric Lowrider
As a kid in East L.A., Alvaro Sanchez learned the importance of shade. https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2019-5-september-october/faces-clean-energy/search-electric-lowrider
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Video: How low-rider graphics are painted on cars
Pablo Prado of Kandy and Chrome goes over some of his custom paint work for Lowriders. https://www.businessinsider.com/how-low-rider-graphics-painted-on-cars-2021-1
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Video: Can a Car Really Skip Rope?
A video of a car skipping rope has the scientists buzzing about how this amazing car is modified to jump 12 ft. in the air – over and over.
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Article: The Revolutionary History of Lowriders
The new film ‘Lowriders’ highlights the aesthetic of Chicanx car culture but leaves out its radical politics. Find out more about the revolutionary roots in this article from Vice. https://www.vice.com/en/article/9aeamy/the-revolutionary-history-of-lowriders
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Article: Lowriders- Cars with identities
Lowriders are cars that express identities—social, cultural, aesthetic. With their extended bodies and low to the road roll, the cars have been a vehicle of choice for cruising, a popular pastime in many American communities since the mid-twentieth century. Lowriding puts both the cars and their riders on display. https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/manylenses/lowriders#her
