Featured History Transitioning from Customs to Low Riders

1958 Impala convertible with a chopped top, custom grill, painted headlight rings frenched in, nosed and probably decked, Astro Supremes, lakes pipes and a sporty stance.

 

1959 Chevy El Camino heavily shaved, sitting nice and low with Buick Skylark wire wheels, thin whites, candy paint job and lakes pipes.

 

Anyone know the current whereabouts of this one? I remember seeing it at kkoa events back in the late 90s. This picture may have been from Hangin Dice in Ft. Smith, Ar.

 

Bill Baker use to own it. I'll ask him to see if he know where it is....

 

Very Kool thread....

 

Thanks, I'm hoping more will post those hard to find gems

 

1957 Chevy sitting on the ground, deep dish Cragar S/S wheels with thin whites, shaved, custom paint with pinstriping, and a custom "Drawer Knob" grill.

 

1962 Impala with the California rake, Slotted Appliance wheels and thin whites and custom paint job.

 

I entered my car in this show back in 1964. I threw out the trophy but kept this poster and the show program with Ed Roth's autograph on the cover. There is no mention of 'lowriders' on the poster, but 'glamorous customs' is listed. The cars in the program had an abundance of Watson painted examples.

 

Great thread
And I’ve had numerous
Lowriders
Kustoms
And Hot Rods love them all…..
And lowriders DO belong on here

 

putting Astro Supremes on a custom does not make it a lowrider. lowering a car does not make it a custom, though there are a buttload of lowered cars in the custom photo thread, which should be in the mild custom thread.

 

Or spoked wheels for that matter.

 

Anything not stock = custom

 

so a 69 Chevelle with mags and a tunnel ram is a custom? not in my world.

 

Sure is. Hot rods, race cars, street rods, lowriders, lifted, squatted…whatever isn’t stock is a custom build.

 

Not on this site it doesn't whether you want to argue semantics or not.

 

The world is bigger than here
Restored cars are just customs built to OE specs
A hot rod is a custom build

 

I like that, "Glamorous Customs"

 

Yeah, I really like the images coming out of the woodwork...
I too like them all

 

You are absolutely right

 

Agreed

 

Seen a lot of “stock” cars in the lowrider mags

JS

 

google images does not agree. it agrees even less when you search "50's custom cars". half the cars are chopped Mercs.
"the world is bigger than here", but we are here, and here custom cars are are not just any car with any modification or none at all.
"strike" means different things to a bowler, a baseball player, a Union worker and a gold miner. same with custom

 

Non factory = modified/custom whether you bowl or not

 

More pictures and less discussion please

 

Is it a custom or a lowrider???