In 1959, a customizer named Ron Aguirre developed a way of bypassing the law with the use of hydraulic Pesco pumps and valves that allowed him to change ride height at the flick of a switch. Main article: Height adjustable suspension However, this resulted in a backlash: the enactment of Section 24008 of the California Vehicle Code on January 1, 1958, which made it illegal to operate any car modified so that any part was lower than the bottoms of its wheel rims.Īdding height adjustable suspension By redesigning these cars in ways that go against their intended purposes and in painting their cars so that they reflect and hold meanings from Mexican-American culture, lowriders create cultural and political statements that go against the more prevalent Anglo culture. The aim of the lowriders is to cruise as slowly as possible, "Low and Slow" being their motto. Initially, some Mexican-American youths lowered blocks, cut spring coils, z'ed the frames and dropped spindles.
Lowrider car culture began in Los Angeles, California in the mid-to-late 1940s and during the post-war prosperity of the 1950s.
The lowrider car serves no practical purpose. A lowrider showing off during the Fiestas Patrias Parade, South Park, Seattle, Washington
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