Lowriders

thanks for the pics

 

Three more from the "Randazzo Files"
Shitty pic, but the 61's a cool blue primer



I swear, if 58's ever come back to earth in price, I'll "do" this car again


Pearl white (flip-flop blue/purple), Gypsy Rose inspired, and teal metalflake Caprice Bench/buckets

 

Right-Click, Save-As! Thanks for the pics, but I know you got more Groucho...

 

this one is for you Groucho,
Vineland/Saticoy - parking lot of Quick market right next to "the Viking" bar.
1977 , my brothers 72' juiced only in the front in this pic.

 

I've got LOTS more. They just aren't Lowriders. Around 1974 I got real heavy into street racing. Did that for a lot of years

 

COOL! I live about a 1/4 mile from there. It was common back then to just "juice" the front of a car. Why don't they still say it's "lifted" or "juiced"? I just think "Hydros" sounds kinda Gay

 

These 3 are more recent

 

not sure when "Hydro" came in, always liked juiced myself.

I grew up on Vineland/Cohasset near S.V. Jr high

 

I lived on Kraft (1 W. of Tujunga) betw. Cohasset and Saticoy from late 70's to '83ish. We hung out at nite across from SV Jr high outside this girl Ida's apt building. Prolly 10-15 of us for months. Every nite. One of the Cops that came around was Eddie Haskell from Leave it to Beaver

 

forget the name of the guy that owned this but I took this picture on Elmer/Valerio thats Sun Valler Jr high in the back round,
1981

 

I think my brother married Ida....HA!

 

our driveway on Cohasset, between Fair and Vineland.



we threw the wheels on moms Monte one day, just screwing around , she loved it!

 

same driveway, I climbed on top of the roof to take this picture.
BTW, this is the same 65 chevy as the gold one above.
we had a huge U shaped driveway thats still there.



front of the house, my dad did all the brick work and I think its still there.



same place, my other brothers 66 caprice.
about 1974, side pipes and cragars baby!



our friends 63 with T tops,

 

same house, my brother Javier and his 64,

from this,


to this

 

yet another brother and his Pontiac,
1971

 

Man...I just love the paint on the yellow paneled '65....As well as the fogs on the Poncho...
So much "classier" than the majority of the over-the-top paintwork on lowriders these days.

 

Ida Grojean, or something like that? That Mango 65's awesome

 

Those Cragars look like Rockets on the 4-door

 

last couple pages have been too good!!! That 65 chevy

 

your right, I kept one of the center caps when the car went away.

 

Groucho--Dont worry about the 58...I'm doing it in your honor...trust me!!
I wont disappoint...time to put the East on...

 

Go for it Boss. I believe you have mentioned that before. Keep us in the loop. But, if opportunity arrives, I too will build one. Either that, or the 2-tone blue 38 Chevy I posted earlier

 

I would love to do a 66 Riv with a set of tru spokes or astro's.

one look I have always loved but dont see enough are targa tops..


I grew up in LA, then my parents moved to the Burbs (sunland and tujunga). My first memory of a lowrider was my uncles 70 boattail Riv on cragers and lifts (then he got some wires.. (this would have been around 75 or 76 I think, may a year earlier). its sat nose high most of the time and I just dug the car..

 

I started to move some stainless mouldings an a 56 bel air grille outta the way, since I last seen 'em in the garage. They were still back there, leaning against the wall. I will take pictures of them tomorrow and put them up. I know they used to fill them up the same as you would air shocks, an there was only cylinders in the front. They weren't running a compressor and tanks like the new set ups.

 

Wow, last pages were like the reason why i keep checkin and postin to this thread!
Beautiful...Groucho your 58 is one of the nicest ive ever seen, seriuosly!
Fishbeck, heres a thread i started friday, i'd like to gather as much info as possible on the subjet:
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=419413
Of course to all of you guys on the know please fill the void!
Meanwhile thanx everybody for the eyecandy

 

These are the actual cylinders they used from the 64 Rivi. They kept them an I just photograghed them today. They had a 7up tank aired up in the trunk with a selector valve inside from a Big truck. It was nuetral in the center an Up & Down to move the car. The Bradley Twins built a 60 T Bird, and came up with the Air Cylinder idea in 1966. So it was in 1967 that Dad & Uncle installed them on the Rivi. I have more photos of the Chopped Rivi that I need to have scanned, along with one of Denvers Rivi... Stay tuned

 

Thanx J, yeah they look a lot like the ones from today. I see that one side is mounted
just like a shock would, but how do you mount the actual cylinder that moves?
Does it need an oblong hole to compensate up and down movement?
or it simply has to be tight down? Hope this makes sense ???

 

Man, the HAMB is so great for this stuff. It's amazing for a younger guy like me to be able to get this info first hand from those that actually built this stuff. I really would like to see how these cylinders in person. Is there any possible way I can come down and check those things out? Maybe I could scan your pictures for you too, I've got a nice scanner.

 

I will ask them more about how everything attached. It's not a good time right now to come around. There's a lot of stress with the District Attorney on us to put our cars all on cement,(16 in total) so theres a lot of work to be done here. Our hearing is early next month, and we have to show improvement. Somebody should start a new thread on Code Enforcement/ D.A citings since they're scraping the barrel for revenue. I bet there's a lot to be said on this subject

 

Code Enforcement/ D.A citings thread
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4597357&posted=1#post4597357