are there any TRADITIONAL lowrider message boards???

i wanna know,..my first love of automobiles was due to the fact of my pops,he was a member of the east los car club the Imperials back in the late 60's...
he's moved on and is into other stuff,but ive always loved traditional lowriders,(not the shit you see in the fagazines).,anyways my 56 isnt really a "custom" its really just a early style lowrider,back when east LA was getting their grove on,,,

anyways, just wondering if there are any websites dedicated to old school lowriders,,,

i dont want to talk to idiots in there metal flaked cutlass,but interested in the old vatos from back in the day....

 

Remember them lowrider guys from "Corvette Summer"???

Some of their rides reminded me of the types of cars I saw being built and driven locally by the guys that my aunt ran with, mid 60s GM boats slammed and chopped with killer paint work. This was mid 70s.

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One of my favorite old photos from them days!!

 

lowriders


any vets out there?

whitier BLVD?

 

butt,

I second that request. All I have found is lowrider.com. I couldn't wade through the late model bolt on shit like stereo and spoiler kit advice to find anything about O.S. hydro's, fulton visors, knock-off's or magnesium plates.

But I did recently get a book that just came out- The History of Lowriders- and it is really well done. Lots of pictures of 60's stuff that looks a lot like the cars a lot of "us" are into- supremes, skinny ww's, flake paint, etc., and of course a buch of nice Duke's Fleetlines. I got mine at Borders so it shouldn't be hard to find.Check it out.

 

Love the early Lowride look, My uncle had a boattail riv back in 70 - 72 time frame with spokes and thin whitewall and pinstriping... (I grew up in LA &amp; Eagle Rock area)

I think alot of the 49-54 out there have more of a lowrider look then they do a Custom look, especially when the body is left stock.

I have some Lowrider Mags from the early days. The Imperials were one of the first clubs I remember have alot of cars in the mags... got any early pics of lowriders, post them...

 

praisethelowered,man,is that the book lowrider mag had been in the making? i need to check it out..

Boones, i agree,49-54 chevys are it. when i first joined the HAMB i posted some pics of my dads old rides(my computer has takin a shit since then and i dont have a scanner anymore,but if anybody can wait(and wants)i can scan them again at my parrents tommorow...)

...mostly impalas and bombas

 

Please scan them for us. I'd really like to see them.

Kevin

 

brownpride?

http://www.brownpride.com/bpevents/event.asp?b=26

Paul

 

Thats one HELL of a pontoon boat ride!

 

yeah,ive checked out that site 60's style...
speaking for myself,even though im a half beaner and im married to a chicana,im not into all that brown pride shit they promote,i belive individuals should be reponsible for there own actions,,i just dig the lowriders and the movement it used to represent...

...cruising the BLVD in your waxed up ranfla with your shoes shined and listing to some oldies on your way to pick up your rucca for a night out on the town. hahahaha

anybody remember "light bars" those light things that went under your dash?

hillbilly hotrodder,ill get some pics up tommorow night

 

like in the old cheach and chong movies..

in about '79 or '80 I had a '62 98 four door hard top (holiday)

that was lowered, with vw tires on the original 14 inch rims and delux caps

and the most kick ass cassete deck and amp I could afford.

now that was a fun car!

Paul

 

you might try to get a hold of these guys...

sleepy lagoon

-- raaf

 

SAMMYYYYYYY! look up Abomber30's email address and give him a shout. he used to be big into the lowriders back in the day (SHHH! you did'nt hear it from me) and has some cool pics of some of his old lowriders as well as some others. he showed em to me last year when i went to the Pile Up. which, by the way, you missed this weekend. it fruckin rocked!!!!!

by the way, congrats on the YOUNG GUN OF THE MONTH write up in RnC bro!! now whos ass did you have to kiss to get that???

later... Mike

 

yeah the book is from lowrider magazine but way better than you'd think. Smarter.

My favorite thing about lowriders . . . they aren't afraid to look good . . .whatever that means to the guy building it.

 

But back to the topic- what about trad. forums?

The links mentioned have boards but they seem to be all about spinner dubs and '98 Eclipses with neon. Where are the real lowrider BUILDERS on-line? There is some serious craft in these things but I have never heard any discussion on-line that hints at anything beyond bolt-on posers.

 

I've been doing some searching... I really don't see much at all about traditional lowriding at all. Books, like a few folks have said, seem to be the only resorce when it comes to learning a bit more about original lowriders. That brown pride message board mainly seems to be flame wars, people parting out Hondas, and talking trash about white people. It'd be nice to find a good message board though... http://low-riders.com/ doesn't seem to be too bad...

 

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I think it's because you are looking for mermaids.

Something that didn't exist as you are envisioning it.

Sure, there were "customs" that the only modification from stock was they were lowered.
And that type of "custom" may seem to have been more prevalent in "brown" communities, but it really wasn't.
What is real, is, people in "brown" communities tended to keep their cars longer than other areas, stashed them away in garages, and back yards only to bring them back out after the custom's "dry spell" that was the 70's.
It was then that a car style now known as a "Lowrider" became it's own segment of "customs"
I remember customs in the 60s, and they were everything from just lowered or hubcaps changed to hydraulics and wild customs.
There was also some people kept there cars "stock" and put every accessory Felix Chevrolet and J C Whitney sold on them, and maybe lowered them while they were at it.
Those are the cars you are probably wanting to call lowriders, but at the time they were just called "gook wagons" which is a miss-understood term today, so just accept the fact that gook just meant "goop" or kitsch or junk, to those who didn't "appreciate" the art form. I think they are called "bombs" thse days. They were just the family car then.

The car wasn't the lowrider, the DRIVER was the lowrider, just like in the song by War.
It was a driving attitude.
Ya move the seat all the way back and rest your left wrist over the top of the steering wheel, while you slouch down low in the seat maybe with your right elbow actually in the center of the seat cushion.
You peer out the windshield over the dash just to the right of the steering wheel, under the angora covered mirror.
That way you're cool, and you make a smaller target if you're cruising someone else's hood.
And it wasn't just brown people then, it was anybody who liked cruising low and slow.
It definitely took a different mind set from the guys with jacked up '55 Chevys.
The split manifold on a "custom" Chevy was strictly for the sound of the pipes, not any quest for power.
I usta know guys who drove with the second gear syncro completely out and didn't care because they'd just roll to about 15 mph in first and "go around the corner" and drop it into high gear and putt. Speeding tickets? hell, impeeding traffic maybe...

Hippies were invented by Time Magazine and Lowrider cars were invented by Lowrider Magazine.
The cars were just lowered "customs" back then.

 

Ha Ha...DrJ, your post about the drivers reminds me even MORE of those dudes from "Corvette Summer"....Mark Hamil hitches a ride with them and when they get underway, he asks why they are going so SLOW!! The driver tells him that's how it's done! There's a whole caravan of these early lowriders creeping through the desert at like 15mph!

LONG time to Vegas THAT way, Luke...Hydraulics instead of Hyperdrives!!

 

Sorry Butt, not a veterano by your standards, early 60's
that is.
I'm 40 years old so my coming of age lowriding days were late 70's early 80's.
5.20's and true-spokes
Chicano style pre-hip-hop cholos
We listened to Oldies only.

Never heard of Rockabilly, we just called it fast oldies.

 

dan galucci,thats way cool.thats what i was talking bout too,mainly 60's,but also 70's even a lil into the eighties,back when it was still real,when being a lowrider ment something. i havent bought any lowrider magazines in a few years...


Dr.J great input. yeah,i agree with the lowrider being the attitude more than just a car,,good write.

 

DrJ. Good read. Thanks.

 

good thread sammy....i have tried to find a board too......lemme know ifn ya find one..........

 

Yeah Butt,
"Where were you in 82"
We tried to nail the last good year of
"traditional?!?!?!?!" aaaahhhhhh that word again,
old sytle pre hiphop lowriding for the Daly City/Frisco
area. Almost puked when the true classics and
starwires came out. I knew I was done. I was an official
relic.
Teen Angel magazine was a big influence.

 

Hey Butt, if ya find a board let me know. Myself and Jeff (from the hamb)are the only trad. style lowrider fans in our area, and honestly aside from old school hotrods, they're the cars that really do it for me. I've got a 66impala and a 59Impala, Being that this style car is so rare around here, when I park it and drop it, people just freak, I'd still love to do one as a daily.

 

Got to meet Mike Pickel at Paso one year.
He was still rolling tru's and 5.20's.
I think it was a panel wagon or something.
Remember his posters?
Also met Big Al from Teen Angel at a Billet Proof show
once.
Late 70's Story and King anybody?

 

www.layitlow.com
try this one...

 

poncho,thanks,thats a pretty cool site,i was digging the forum till i started reading some of the shit the bling blingers were posting back and forth...(sounded kinda like this place at times ) regardless,some pretty cool stuff over there

i was gonna post some pics of my dads rides tonight,but the wrong pics got sent over here,so it'll be tommorow if anybody still wants to see them...

anybody have any cool pics or stories????

 

here's some of those pics if anybody cares

 

thats my mom

 

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