Yahoo Autos Close to the ground and pretty to behold, lowriders get museum honors
Lowriders — and we don't mean low-rise jeans — are custom cars that cruise low to the ground, and so slowly, so that onlookers can get a good view of the paint job, the fantastic suspension, and most importantly the driver showing off his or her good looks.
The cars' background and their fascinating history will be on display in extraordinary colors and detail next month at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, celebrating the artistry and craftsmanship of the Chicano and Latino youth communities that popularized lowriders in Southern California in the late 1960s.
Lowrider cars were instrumental in fostering the custom-car scene well beyond where it first developed, in L.A. and along the West Coast. Today, lowrider communities can be found well beyond SoCal — in the Southwest, Chicago, Kansas City and New York City. Internationally, there are lowrider communities in Japan, Brazil, Thailand and even France.
