are there any TRADITIONAL lowrider message boards??? [Archive]

Sam F.

10-12-2003, 07:05 PM

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....

Fat Hack

10-12-2003, 07:15 PM

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.

<img src=http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid73/p4ebd24999a5ac4404d1c796d19c3b87b/fb7878cc.jpg>

One of my favorite old photos from them days!!

Sam F.

10-12-2003, 07:45 PM

lowriders

any vets out there?

whitier BLVD?

praisethelowered

10-12-2003, 08:37 PM

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.

Boones

10-12-2003, 08:41 PM

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 & 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...

Sam F.

10-12-2003, 08:52 PM

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

Ayers Garage

10-12-2003, 08:54 PM

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

Kevin

Paul

10-12-2003, 09:04 PM

brownpride?

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

Paul

Levis Classic

10-12-2003, 09:10 PM

Thats one HELL of a pontoon boat ride!

Sam F.

10-12-2003, 09:19 PM

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

Paul

10-12-2003, 09:42 PM

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

raaf

10-12-2003, 10:24 PM

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

sleepy lagoon (http://www.sleepylagoon.com/Home/main.htm)

-- raaf

kustombuilder

10-12-2003, 10:37 PM

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??? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

later... Mike

praisethelowered

10-12-2003, 10:49 PM

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.

praisethelowered

10-12-2003, 10:58 PM

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.

Kojack

10-13-2003, 02:55 AM

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...

DrJ

10-13-2003, 03:47 AM

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I've been doing some searching... I really don't see much at all about traditional lowriding at all....

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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... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

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

Fat Hack

10-13-2003, 08:03 AM

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!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

**DONOTDELETE**

10-13-2003, 12:01 PM

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.

Sam F.

10-13-2003, 02:21 PM

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.

Sailor

10-13-2003, 02:31 PM

DrJ. Good read. Thanks.

lownslow

10-13-2003, 02:38 PM

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

**DONOTDELETE**

10-13-2003, 04:07 PM

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.

ChrisinPhilly

10-13-2003, 05:09 PM

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.

**DONOTDELETE**

10-13-2003, 06:03 PM

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?

poncho

10-13-2003, 07:07 PM

www.layitlow.com (http://www.layitlow.com)
try this one... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Sam F.

10-13-2003, 08:19 PM

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 http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif) 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????

Sam F.

10-14-2003, 01:27 PM

here's some of those pics if anybody cares

Sam F.

10-14-2003, 01:29 PM

thats my mom

Sam F.

10-14-2003, 01:34 PM

another shot

Sam F.

10-14-2003, 01:35 PM

my mom and dad

Fat Hack

10-14-2003, 01:36 PM

Yeah, Butt!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

THAT'S the kinda rides that I was seeing around East Detroit back in the early-to-mid 70s when I first started getting into cars! That Impala looks like it coulda been built at Harold's place!

Your Dad's car???

Cool! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Sam F.

10-14-2003, 01:37 PM

Sam F.

10-14-2003, 01:39 PM

yeah fat hack,my dads cars,i wasnt even born yet.these pics are from late 60's to early 72-ish.

Sam F.

10-14-2003, 01:44 PM

ok ,thats about it,, he had a few bombs as well too,but some pics have been misplaced.

they werent too wild,but hard enough for the blvd.hahaha

Dago Red

10-14-2003, 01:45 PM

That white 52(?) Chevy fucking rules.

Fat Hack

10-14-2003, 01:48 PM

That's about the same era that Harold and his buds were building similar cars here. The photo I posted on page one of this post yesterday was taken in 1975. That chopped 67 Pontiac was the coolest thing I had ever seen at that tender young age! (I was 7 years old when that photo was taken...standing behind my aunt who took the photo!)

Interesting that there were cars like that in other parts of thecountry about the same time. Where were these pictures taken?

(I remember several 63-64 Impalas with cool paint and LOW stances hanging around the alley back then...along with a really wild Chrysler something-or-other...I think it was maybe a 68 Fury, but it was so modified I can't say for sure...long, low and several shades of blue with a chopped roof, skinny whites and chrome knock-offs. It was LOUD too...open pipes I'm sure!)

Thanks for sharing those pics!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Sam F.

10-14-2003, 01:54 PM

those pics were taken in east LA.

abomber30

10-14-2003, 02:03 PM

I Love lowriders. Just as much as I do hot rod's and kustoms so sue me. I will see if I can find some pics. I have no clue if there are any sires layitlow.com is they only one I have ever found. I have been out of it for a few years now but I still got a good stash of hydro's. Theres Nothing like bustin' a three wheel around the corner so don't knock it till you try it. drew

Fat Hack

10-14-2003, 02:15 PM

Here's a few pics to check out:

http://scrapebythelake.homestead.com/2002lowrider.html

Lotta late-model bling there, but a few old school rides...I kinda dig the clean gold Caddy, myself!!!

praisethelowered

10-14-2003, 02:23 PM

butt those photos are great. Your mom's impala looks like it has the back half of the top vinyled- I haven't seen that in a long time. I grew up in Palm Springs / Indio and can't seem to get some of those old cars out of my blood either.

Smokin Joe

10-14-2003, 02:24 PM

What I remember is white fake fur, shag carpet, light bars that flashed with the 8 track, small chrome chain steering wheels, dingle balls and lace string curtains, fancy name or club tags cut out of brass sheet and polished or chromed in the back window, totaly stock bodywork with mainly grills and bumpers customized, and flake or candy paint. Usually Caddys or Impalas. Still have them here today but they're mostly Monte Carlos with latino nudes airbrushed on the hood and trunk lids. Now they bag them but back in the late 60's early 70's they just cut coils, used spring compressors and used lowering blocks. That's why they only drove 15mph.(No suspension to speak of). You needed to go slow so you could spot the manhole covers before you dragged on them. My Chevelle was a late model mild low-rider when I first got it. When I think low-rider, I think of Cheech & Chong or "Billy" from "Gone in 60 Seconds"! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Smokin Joe

10-14-2003, 02:25 PM

Oh, and I almost forgot the dash plastic Jesus statue and rosary beads & garter hanging from the mirror...

krupanut

10-14-2003, 05:22 PM

That was going on hard core on the front range in Colorado when I was in high school.
The low riders were all ways cool to me because they dug my 58 Chevy and greasy hair.
Some of them had some nice rides too.
On cat they called Tarzan had a stock 38 Buick that ran like a champ.
He lowered it and pinstriped it and that was it.
That car was in incredible shape.
Man this thread brought back some memories

Later holmes http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

ChrisinPhilly

10-14-2003, 05:27 PM

maybe try Bumpstop.com ?

Sam F.

10-14-2003, 05:56 PM

praisethelowered,yeah i guess that was a trend back then with the half vinyl top.

smokin joe,ive always heard of those light bars,but yet to ever see one in real life and the way it works.from what i understand it was a pretty cool "effect"

the 64 and the 57 were both "lifted" front and back but the rest of the rides from what i understand were just lowered. the 57 had a 396 and a four speed.

you know,ive always thought of these cars i posted pics of as lowriders,but Dr.J's right,there really just mild type customs kinda like the cars some of us are building now. ,i guess it was your zip code as to what determined what it was http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

ok,im done talking about lowriders for the next six months.

Smokin Joe

10-14-2003, 06:16 PM

Used to get the light bars from JC Whitney. They probably still carry them. All the stereo shops had bigger ones for the home system too. We tore them apart and customized them to fit the cars. The whole top of the console around the Hurst shifter in one of my cars flashed colors with the music. So did the glove box door and a custom panel the full length of the bottom of the dash. Damned girls would get so fascinated with the lights and tunes it was hard to get them to really appreciate the feel of the crushed velvet upholstery and fake fur if you know what I mean! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

DrJ

10-14-2003, 06:16 PM

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...you know,ive always thought of these cars i posted pics of as lowriders,but Dr.J's right,there really just mild type customs kinda like the cars some of us are building now. ,i guess it was your zip code as to what determined what it was http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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I was just going to say, before seeing this post, so I'll say it anyway. If any of those cars, especially the '57 ventured south of Florence Blvd, it would have been considered just one of the nicer "Bellflower style" customs. The '62's even got the pipes, the "Bellflower" pipes
Except I don't remember anyone actually calling a car a
"Bellflower Style Custom". We call them that now in the custom car history stories, but then they were just "customs".
We did call the pipesbehind the rear wheels "Bellflowers", just Bellflowers, with no "pipes".
People didn't spend so much time explaining what they were doing with their cars then, they just did it. and other people said "that's cool" and maybe copied it, or just didn't say anything and walked on by.

Sam F.

10-14-2003, 09:40 PM

Dr.J,seriously man,you should right a book,dude...i was gonna say an article,but i think a book would be better.
you were there,alot of the shit you type,(even tho some dont listen to cuz their worried about red wheels and shit.)is realy a cool perspective of the "scene" that alot of us didnt know about.

i still remember the story you told about getting new gravel all over your new JC pennys shirt...

a good book on the LA area in the 60's till ??? told from your prespective would be cool

lownslow

10-14-2003, 10:26 PM

sammy ,
those pics are FUCKING COOL !!!!!!!! hey do you think your mom and dad will adopt me ??? i dont eat much ......then we can be bros ,,,,bro.......haha...seriously those so cool.....i am gonna save em .....if thats cool ,,,,,right on man and dont wait another six months to bring up lows again........

Sam F.

10-14-2003, 10:37 PM

donnie,i can guarntee they would adopt you http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif,,, my parents home has a revolving door out front,LOL

lownslow

10-14-2003, 10:51 PM

right on brutha ....although i may show up and never leave.......right on.now i have a new family............haha....again those pics rule.......the real deal........i still have to send you that truck winshield part huh ?.....sorry dude i totally forgot.........pm me your address again.......i promise i will send it......

Sam F.

10-14-2003, 10:59 PM

dude,your welcome any time,

about the pics,,,, i just wish there were more pics and times like that to enjoy(or at least i coulda been there),. i know there are old dudes here who have some cool pics,but may be to shy to show there pics,hahaha

donnie,dont sweat the windshield crank thing,,,itll be a while before im ready for it anyways,just throw it in the package when i order a shirt .

im SUPPOSED to go out there in febuary for my sis-in-laws wedding,so well see if they can stay together that long...

lownslow

10-14-2003, 11:31 PM

right on .....you have my number ....lemme know if ya come out.......and yeah i will send the part with the shirt.thanks......

chaco

10-15-2003, 12:17 AM

Im only 29, but I remember the old school growing up in Richmond CA(Bay Area). Truspokes and 5.20s with buffed out white walls. Monte carlos were big. There were like 4 hydraulic shops in Richmond alone. I still have my deep dish chain steering wheel.Cruised San jose, 23rd, even went out to grafitti in motown.since the mid 90s the scene got to commercialized. I havent bought a lowrider magazine in over 6 years. I have some early lowrider magazines from like 81. If you guys wanted i could post some pics from them. The scene turned into who ever has the most money type of thing. To win a lowrider show you have to have over 80 Gs in the car.Anyways I love traditional hot rods because they represent the style that I fell in love with as a kid

HIGG

10-15-2003, 12:43 AM

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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....

[/ QUOTE ] If you want go ahead and take over the message board on my site if you want - Its not used much and wide open to whoever wants to take it over @ http://www.ekustom.net - go to CAR YAP! http://www.ekustom.net/homepage/images/mainpage/homeanim1.gif

lordz of kuztomz

10-15-2003, 02:05 AM

damm the pics remind me of my pops rides, he also had a 57 and 64 both on with hydro's, we used to cruise whittier blvd in the mid 70's i was about 10 years old, NICE PICS CARNAL the only pics i have from back then are from some of my lowrider bikes i built back then

Dat Dirty Rat

10-15-2003, 02:11 AM

Butt- Great post holmes and love the pics of your rides!

DrJ-You nailed it,,good write up!.

I grew up looking at a magazine called "Klassics & Kustoms" wich really featured more 'traditional' style lowriders. If I remember correctly,,Mr Barris had something to do with it also. I will scan in pics of some of these cars in the next couple of days cause these are exactly what you are all looking for..I remember even most of the wild/wayout kustoms being lowriders..as a kid I used to dream of becoming a 'Lowrider',,most of all,,moving out to Cali and becoming an 'Imperial'....(some dreams never come true..so call me a "Dreamer') But I use to watch Chico & the Man and just waiting for them to flash the 'Gypsy Rose'...and the Cheech & Chong movies. Shit I can't count how many of those I popped over the years cause couldn't get enough of the 'Lifestyle' or should I say 'Culture'...There was only one lowrider i recall from my area that was a Buick that was a true traditional style lolo..In fact, the guy hasn't changed a bit. Even his current ride has Tru's w/skinny whites. He has schooled me alot over the years as far as kustoms & lowriders.

Do any of you know of the first documented car and what it was?

How was the car lifted and who built it?

Sorry no prizes this time!!

Dirty

ChrisinPhilly

10-15-2003, 06:25 AM

I think Ron Aguirre's corvette may have been the first "lifted" car.

Dat Dirty Rat

10-15-2003, 06:39 AM

Congrats holmes,,Thats what i've found over the years. I could be wrong but from the research I've done,,,Thats it! Nice job!..Now if only I could find the pics of it!!

Dirty

Anderson

10-15-2003, 10:24 AM

Didn't Ryan have a gold '63 chevy lowrider? I remember seeing pics once...so heres a request to see them again, anyone?

Mike Landwehr

10-15-2003, 10:36 AM

I did'nt realize it was a family thing with you ,Butt.they must love that 56.I might be on to a 65 Grand prix,I'm thinkin mild 60's custom/tow vehicle.

low springs

09-30-2004, 12:51 PM

Damn i missed this post the first time around. that was a good history lesson. i remember my brother taking me out with him to cruise Whitter Blvd also near "fiesta 4 drive in", Hollywood, Elysian Park, all the hot spots.

my dad told my brother that if he wanted to go out he would have to take me (his little bro) with him. so as not to get into to much trouble. my brother opened my eyes to the cruising scene. little did my dad know. my brother and I got into so much trouble and we watched each others back. my brother is a big reason as to why i got into cars and doing body work. wanting to change the body lines around and make them soooo smoooth.

it just so happens that i live up the street from Whitter Blvd now. you guys remember the movie Blvd Knights. "come back Chuco" haha "one,one eleven st holmes."

low springs

09-30-2004, 12:54 PM

the old movie house.

Psycho78

09-30-2004, 01:19 PM

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my pops,he was a member of the east los car club the Imperials back in the late 60's...
i dont want to talk to idiots in there metal flaked cutlass,but interested in the old vatos from back in the day....

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I agree with you 100%
I fucking dig the pics. My pops and my uncles all have old pics that pretty much look the same. From all the stories my pops has told me and from growing up around Lowriders...Imperials are the shit!!!! They have some of the cherriest rides.. My pops was, is and always will be a lowrider from Echo X Park. Old school style. Lower it, crossbars and glasspacks. I'll go dig up some of my pops pics of his dropped 60 Impala w/ cragars. He sold it when I was born cause he needed the bread (I was conceived it that fucking 60) . I think it's always been a lil regret. That was the reason I scored my 60.

mikes51

09-30-2004, 02:15 PM

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And it wasn't just brown people then, it was anybody who liked cruising low and slow.

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Well put, that's exactly how I remembered it too.

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

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I second the motion on that.

FONZI

09-30-2004, 03:26 PM

Great Post,
I too love lowriders, and 60's era customs. It is funny cuz I am knda torn as I am building my chevy. I have many influences. I have always loved customs and some lowriders (not all) The guy who own's the body shop where my car will get painted eventually is an old school lowrider. He has pushed more lowrider influenced ideas on me that I really like. I am not as worried about being "period correct", as some are, but I do not want to mix 50's and 60's era styles. No spots, lakes, red wheels, www, etc. If I was building a 50's styled custom I would consider those items. I am running 15 inch chromies right now. I had planned on switching to 15 inch astros.Now I am leaning more twards 14". I guess I am building a 60's custom with lowrider influence.

FONZI

Sean

09-30-2004, 03:55 PM

http://www.aztlanlowriders.com/images/centerfolds/c5.jpg

Aztlan Lowriders (http://www.aztlanlowriders.com/)

LA Wayne (http://members.tripod.com/~hydroguru/)

Sittin' On 3 (http://www.sittinon3.com/)

praisethelowered

09-30-2004, 04:44 PM

Lowsprings bringing this post back from the dead? That movie house is one of the coolest buildings in LA.

and I'm still looking for a bomba message board a year later . .

Layitlow.com is still the best I've found, but you have to wade through a lot of enpty bragging to find any tech, and everyone compares products and asks for "the hook up' to buy cheap parts more than talking about how to actually build things. It makes me appreciate the HAMB more though. It's like too many of those guys look at it from a consumer rather than a creative point of view. kinda sad. I want to know what the specs are on a hydro pump. . not just what brand it is and where you bought it, you know?

As for tradition. . . it seems like the generation gap is pretty strongly defined in that scene. The old guys drive the cool bombs and the young guys don't want anything they haven't seen in a rap video. I am sure things are being passed down, but computers may just not be thier bag.

low springs

09-30-2004, 05:03 PM

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The old guys drive the cool bombs and the young guys don't want anything they haven't seen in a rap video.

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thats so fucking true. i would love to have one of these rides cruising down Whitter or anywhere for that matter.

low springs

09-30-2004, 05:04 PM

heres one for lownslow.

Boones

09-30-2004, 05:44 PM

dont make me breakout my SuperShow pics....

lownslow

09-30-2004, 05:49 PM

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dont make me breakout my SuperShow pics....

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i double dog dare you !

JamesG

09-30-2004, 05:51 PM

This post has me thinking about "The Love Machine". Anyone have a pic of Cheech's '64 Impala?

Sean

09-30-2004, 07:15 PM

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dont make me breakout my SuperShow pics....

[/ QUOTE ]

i double dog dare you !

[/ QUOTE ]

I TRIPLE dog dare you!

I would really dig seeing those pics, think "The Flakey-Don" would enjoy them too.

____

09-30-2004, 10:07 PM

COOL,just got in a lil while from working on the monte carlo,and what a suprise to see this thread back up http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif,

my grandmother still lives a few miles from the theater. up on HAZARD. cool to see the pics.

lifting the monte over the next week or so..... i got all the cut outs done tonight ,its a 2 pump /4 dump all chrome set up. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif i was thinking the other night maybe i need to swap out the wires for cragers and 5:20's! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

later,
sam

lownslow

09-30-2004, 10:17 PM

post a pic of the monte again.....PLEEEEEEAAAAAASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

____

09-30-2004, 10:24 PM

this is a pic after i got it and put the spokes on it..

i repainted it about a month ago(the old job looked really good,but was showing its age)

ill get some new pics as soon as its back on the ground http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

plan9

09-30-2004, 10:26 PM

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damm the pics remind me of my pops rides, he also had a 57 and 64 both on with hydro's, we used to cruise whittier blvd in the mid 70's i was about 10 years old, NICE PICS CARNAL the only pics i have from back then are from some of my lowrider bikes i built back then

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haha jesse... how bout your homemade HYDROZ made from 2x4's ...thats fuckin classic!!!

i think we got some pics of that lowrider bike frame. ill post if we do..

little carlos is on the lowrider bike tip big time... gonna have to get him on the welder..

plan9

09-30-2004, 10:28 PM

[ QUOTE ]
This post has me thinking about "The Love Machine". Anyone have a pic of Cheech's '64 Impala?

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it aint LOVE MACHINE

ITS LUV MACHEEN

Kev Nemo

09-30-2004, 11:11 PM

Damn-I needed to see this post tonight. I just found out my grandpa is dying in a month from advanced Alzhiemer's. My dad's pretty shook up and he's having to call all my uncles.
My dad's family's pretty old school-no emotional outbursts here. But these were guys I grew up looking at in my dad's photo album with their Impalas and Bel Airs.
The circumstances suck, but at least I'll be able to see all these guys again http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
I was born in SATX and moved to League City as a kid. Most of the lolos were Cutties with wires and plenty of ghetto bang. Almost everyone that drove one was a gangbanger (Not a generalization, a fact in a small town) This one cat had a fine candied out 64 with wires and dros. I always wanted one but my parents were worried I would get f*cked with by the cops like they did.
I still got f*cked with and had to drive a shitty car anyway...
I'm also torn between the two worlds. Not only do I plan on droppin' my '62 Impala, I want to put a 4-71 through the hood.
can't be any tackier than angora interior http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

praisethelowered

10-01-2004, 12:43 AM

just to keep this one alive a while longer. here's one of my favorite cars. this thing is super nice and the paint is this gray/beige color with a transparent pearl over it. hard to see in the photos but so damn cool.

Some lowriders are gods at choosing colors. . . wierd combinations and colors that are right on.

praisethelowered

10-01-2004, 12:46 AM

interior . . . how many people say "I know, i'll use yellow knobs on my beige pearl dash". . . not enough, because it looks good huh?

praisethelowered

10-01-2004, 12:50 AM

the other end of the spectrum. . . Danny Galvaz's impala. . . never thought a pink car could look this tough

Radshit

10-01-2004, 01:07 AM

Nice Monte Butt!!!

Where is Mike Pickel these days.....I miss his posters back in the day....

My ride in '85..............

TheRev

10-01-2004, 03:23 AM

BUTT,my boy!.....i don't feel so all alone now!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif
I always figured there a bunch of ex-lo's hiding in the HAMB closet http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
So now i feel safe to say.I've still got one too!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
It actually took first place in it's class at the LowriderMag show in Portland ,Oregon this year
and even got it's pic in this months Lowrider!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Yeh.....i know......"isn't that dude like almost 50?" http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

If you ever find a Ol'schooler board plz let me know http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

____

10-01-2004, 08:14 AM

congrats Rev,..the "mothership connection" right?

clean ride! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Wandereryque

10-01-2004, 08:21 AM

orale wass sappaning im not to old school but grew up around real lowriders Im from Fresno and we used to cruz roading park , kearney park, and Kings Canyon. I remember all the local clubs in this area and looked up to them like Thee Individuals of fresno more then 30 yrs old and still going when I was in high school I sold my Lowrider Bike and saved to get an Impala a 67 it was shit but i worked hard and saved for rims"tru spokes" Hydraulics"fenner stone pumps" and joined "Eastside Car Club " now I had old stuff thats how poor I was cause im talking 1993but times changed and I fell outa looks an more into performance and older cars bought a 58 delrey got into rockabilly primer pinups and palmade and again not so long ago 1996 but still I have to say this Lowriding is about the do it your self work hard to make a good looking car i think its lost that with all that bling crap, and hotrods and customizing are the same. WHY PAY SOME ONE TO DO YOUR WORK FOR YOU WHEN YOU COULD DO IT YOURSELF AND TAKE PRIDE IN WHT YOU MADE I
Arato always POOH BEAR DE EAST SIDE FRESNO CRUZIN SLOW AND LOW CATCH YA ON THE REBOUND even if its in a 25 dodge now.

praisethelowered

10-01-2004, 12:21 PM

The Rev. . .

PICTURES!

please

____

10-01-2004, 09:41 PM

just a sneak peak,...
http://members.roadfly.org/samiam/M701.JPG

laters

HELLBILLY

10-01-2004, 10:57 PM

[ QUOTE ]
the other end of the spectrum. . . Danny Galvaz's impala. . . never thought a pink car could look this tough

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Whoa! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif That is nice....that I like.
No Chuco,No...I really liked BLVD.Nights!

Tman

10-01-2004, 11:42 PM

You guys are even starting to influence my lilly white ass! Wish hadnt sold those 14" Fentons to Ray now!

REVEREND JAKE

10-01-2004, 11:51 PM

If it weren't for Up In Smoke, I wouldn't be the car guy I am today. I heard the soundtrack first, then watched the movie. I absolutely drooled for luv macheen. I even wanted to make an accurate model of Cheech's ride when I was in high school. I, like so many others, have evolved. I dig just about all traditional rides and yes I dig techie rides too, but my first love was most certainly traditional lowriders. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

The only board I have found is rollerzonly (I think), it's not oldskool, but modern and crazy.

Reverend Jake

luckystiff

10-01-2004, 11:52 PM

ha i watched boulevard nights today laying around recovering from having my wisdom teeth removed. second time this month. the main problem i could see with a traditional lows board is the people you would really want around aren't even computer folk. still i think it's a good idea that just needs someone to step up and get it done. i'm computer stupid and do good just to get around here so i'm out. would be cool though...ken....

butt,
your monte needs a set of tru spokes to me. it looks so good now it could only be better with that change and lifted. what sort of set up you gonna use? something crazy or just a basic lift.

now a question. i've seen alot of stuff that actually says the green buick in the middle of hot rods and customs of the 60s was rumored to be the first or one of the first cars lifted. i've seen the car listed as belonging to troy hefner and other saying it belonged to zoochi. i know it was lifted by bill hines when it was a brand new car and the candy fade job was done by winfield. anybody got any other info on the car. i considered cloning it for a long time. only bagged instead of lifted and with different wheels which i have been told it got skylark wires at some point which is what i would want to run. anyone got any other info oon that car?...ken....

REVEREND JAKE

10-02-2004, 12:06 AM

The info that I read in Lowrider was Ron Aguire's X-sonic was the first equipped with hydraulics. That (I believe) is a Starbird built, Watson (I know) painted full kustom. It said in the article that Ron got tired of being pulled over for being too low ALL THE TIME. So his dad told him about the hydraulic arms used on airplanes. His dad found some and equipped the car with them. The first time he was pulled over, the cop did a U-ie because he saw how low the car was. Once the cop turned around, he had already raised the car and the cop couldn't figure out what the deal was.

He went on to say he got out of that one. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Reverend Jake

Cadillacin Marcus

10-02-2004, 12:18 AM

Bad Ass Pics Butt!! Thanks...I really dig that 57!!!

gowjobs

10-02-2004, 12:27 AM

I saw that this post had made it up to the top of the list again, and had to post a reply this time.

I grew up in a really brown area of Oxnard, CA in the '70s and it was all about early sixties Chebbies with Cragar SS in 13 or 14 inch diameters and 5.20s. By the '80s, I remember rollin in my buddy's "Banana Boat" pearl yellow '65 Impala wagon. It was only juiced in the rear, but it'd hit 27" with only two old school pumps powered by four 48V batteries the local fire department sold to him out the back door when they were replaced during "routine maintenance" on the trucks. The car looked wicked with the skirts on, but always looked lower with them off. I remember getting into the boat outside McDonalds when a serviceman obviously originating from the deep South stopped us to point out that we had a "flat tire". You should have seen his eyes pop when Jerry juiced it up, and then dropped it as we trailed sparks all the way around the lot from the magnesium blocks bolted under the rear bumper. One time we smuggled nine people into the drive-in and only paid for the two in the front seat. All it took was the double limo tint and a blanket to pull that one off.

Oxnard used to have a good cruising scene in the mid eighties. Saviers Road was the spot until the Crips/Bloods moved north around '88 or so. Before that, you could cruise without fearing drive-bys and nobody was selling enough drugs to fund the over-gold look yet.

Radshit

10-02-2004, 12:41 AM

I agree Gowjobs.....lowriding lost me when everybody was goldplating everything they possibly could.....and Gold wheels.........just looks tacky to me.........

but 14 inch Trues and chrome.....will make any car look chingon!

Cadillacin Marcus

10-02-2004, 09:22 PM

Here in the BAY AREA San Jose,Hayward,Union City,Newark,Oakland is where you'd find your low riders.I remember back in the 70's visiting my aunt in Oakland.She had these neighboors that were hardcore low rider vatos..Always had a nice selection of Chevy's in the front yard....they were really cool people..I remember my dad talking to them in Spanish...They would trip out...my dad looks like a whiteboy but grew up in the 50's speaking only Portuguese and Spanish....Us Portagees started the whole Kustom Low Rider thing in the first place..Because in the 40's and 50's the poor old Portagee Farmers started selling thier land for development and became rich..They were the first Goldchainers too! hehehe..I know I'm gonna take shit for this one... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Kev Nemo

10-02-2004, 09:48 PM

Yeah, I'm looking to start a TRADITIONAL pinstriping board-no cars, only carriages and carts like my Gypsy ancestors striped http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

k9racer

10-02-2004, 11:45 PM

This was a refreshing 7 pages of good reading and no drama. Thank You. Bobby..

OG lil E

10-03-2004, 11:27 AM

I've been watching this post ever since it came back to the top, and I gotta agree with k9racer, great post! Reminds me of the old school HAMB before the newbie invasion started 3 or 4 years ago.

Anyway, I decided I've got to get in on this, too. Lowriding has always been a big part of my family. More so a few years back than now, because most of my lowriding cousins got into trouble and are doing time. My cousin Martin was probably the most hard core one. He always had a lifted kar and top notch kandy paint, as well as the best wire wheels out at the time. He always had an Alpine, a simple amp and lots of tweeters! Back then, everybody used to "bump treble"! We'd listen to Zapp, Tower of Power, War, whatever. When he wanted to listen to oldies, he'd fire up the underdash 8-track and break out some Chuck Berry or Elvis! Once in a while they would swing by my house and pick me up. I thought that was pretty kool because I wasn't old enough to drive, but I was definitely kar krazy. At that time, everyone into lowriders used to cruise 38th Avenue. It was unreal how many lowriders used to roll out there. Back then, Marty had a '72 Grand Prix with a kandy root beer brown paint job with tons of 'flake, gold and brownish pinstriping on it. Curly-Q style that the lowriders back then had. It was lifted front, back and side to side--one of the first ones in Denver. We'd hit 38th and people would go nuts when he'd start dropping sides! What a blast! I always liked when he would drop the front and lay sparks down the street. There used to be this little grocery store called Tj's that was on 38th. There were big windows all the way along the building. The store would be closed by the time the cruising started, so it was dark inside. He would always tell me to look in the windows and you could watch the sparks as you went by!

I plan on building a lowrider again some day--maybe a bomba. I've been trying to collect parts to have ready when the day comes. So far I have alot of old time accessories like a red headed flashlight and holder, rear window blinds, fender guides, curb feelers, traffic light finder, etc, etc. I'm finding that the stuff lowriders used in the 70s and early 80s are the hardest to find. The light bars that go under the dash we always called Bowmans. I've been looking for one for years and no luck. How about the red bar lights in the back window that used to flash from the center out when you'd step on the brakes? Don't know what they were called, but every lowrider had them. Also, organ pipe speaker covers. They used to be made of metal back then, not plastic like now! I did manage to score some TVs--rabbit ear antennas that went on the side rear window, as well as some big center cap Tru-Classics. What accessories or lowrider stuff do you closet lowriders have? Let's hear it.................................E

TheRev

10-04-2004, 01:16 AM

hey Rob;here's a pic from Portland ,it's all 100 percent original,
bought it from the original owners with 50,000 miles on it,
except 6 batt's,2 pumps,and a bunch o tunes! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

gowjobs

10-04-2004, 01:20 AM

Man, add some scollwork pinstriping here and there in brown and gold and change the wheels out to Tru-Spokes, and that'd be straight out of '82!

TheRev

10-04-2004, 01:39 AM

yeh Gow;it's too bad that the old style true spokes are worth more than new wires
(thats always been the plan tho) http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
right behind my 48,58,and 61!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

____

10-16-2004, 06:14 PM

finally got the monte carlo done.

peace.

http://members.roadfly.org/samiam/monte70.JPG
http://members.roadfly.org/samiam/monte70b.JPG

http://members.roadfly.org/samiam/monte70c.JPG
http://members.roadfly.org/samiam/monte70d.JPG

51Cards

10-16-2004, 07:47 PM

THAT! is what I think of when I hear Lowrider, I think someone above hit the nail on the head when they said "What ya name it depends on your zip code." Personally I've heard Folks here are VERY hung up on terms, which is wierd because different zips different terms ALL The same damn rides.
BTW that was a nice looking car in the background too.

low springs

10-16-2004, 07:50 PM

Right on...you even got Felix riding with you. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif my nephew works there as body man.

bring that back to LA so we can cruise it. looks really good.

HotRod60F100

10-16-2004, 08:08 PM

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those pics were taken in east LA.

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Damn wheres that tricked out white chevy van with cheech drinking chongs jar of piss for his drug test LOL heeey Pindeckooos http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Boones

10-16-2004, 08:19 PM

Butt, I can not believe yu stepped up to the juice... how does it ride, are you using 1 ton springs in the front

F*&ker is clean

luckystiff

10-16-2004, 11:59 PM

you live a charmed life or something my friend. the monte looks good. real good. but you already know that. i'm trying to get this whole deal done with rebuilding the motor for the buick and selling these lincoln pushbuttons so i can start with the changes on the buick. it's losing the supremes and getting either tru's or if i can find a set skylark wires. for starters. panel fades body. scallop/ lace panel roof. black tbird guts changed to white.etc,etc,etc...ken....

guacamole

10-17-2004, 12:25 AM

Well Don Butt Reynolds,

I must say after reading all these posts, it looks like a website with a great message board for lowriders came to you. Either that or dare I say, the HAMB is a website for lowriders. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif This is one of the longest and most enjoyable posts I've seen. Helpful too since my project is a 64 Impala that I've insisted be four doors, shaved and lowered. I'm about 3/4's done and will try to post a pic soon.

The Monte Carlo looks great!

lownslow

10-17-2004, 12:38 AM

FIRME!!!!!!!! vato loco........looks good holmes......now get your ass back to cai.......haha......awesome sammy............

Peter Pan of Chicago

10-17-2004, 02:49 AM

Orale suave! Mas chingon, Carnale.

That Monte is gorgeous.....and oh so straight.

Congrats,

Joel http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

ChrisinPhilly

10-17-2004, 10:34 AM

Luckystiff, regarding that green buick from Hot Rods and Customs of the 60's, that is the baddest car in that book , perfect lines, stance, paint, etc. I also like the fact that it (64buick) is an often overlooked car. Clone it!

luckystiff

10-17-2004, 10:55 AM

chris,
i considered doing a close to clone of it for years. i've taken alot of hints from that car for the rebuild. i've built 3 differnt tube grille mock up trying to get it to the perfect one like in the green car. probably the few things i would change would be wheel selection, which i have heard that car had skylarks shortly after the few pics you see of it were taken. mine's got tbird guts(66 rears, 67buckets,more comfortable) i think white guts may have looked alittle better which is dumb in my case since the black interior i have is spotless. i think i need 3 more of these cars cause i got about 3 different ways i want to build it.haha. i actually passed on another one a month or so ago because i'm out of room. if i don't build a semi clone of it this time i will in the future. oh yeah i would probably do bags instead of juiced to as this is going back to daily status when done. your right about it being a much to overlooked body style. funny i picked the car up for it's drive train years ago. was gonna put the nailhead in a '50 ford. got the buick called the guy to arrange pickup of the ford and he had sold it. i figure it's a good running car despite the rust so i reg. it and drive it. within a week i had myself a love affair i've never had with a car. i have no idea why it's stuck to me like it has. it will never be sold. who knows i change my mind about paint for this car a bit and it's months before it's close to repaint anyhow. imitating winfields spray job on it intimidates me a bit to. those are mighty big shoes to step into.

anybody got any more info on the green car???????? i've heard bits and pieces of stuff over the last few years. it was supposedly in a coupla magazines in the mid 60s but i haven't found 'em. one source says it belonged to one guy. another source says zocchi had the car built and sold it to that guy a few weeks after it was done. i have heard confirmation that winfield did the paint and hines did the suspension. other than that the car is a mystery. anyone know zocchi that may can confirm if he had the car built? anyone see Gene and can ask him about it? i'd like to find more info if i could. who the owner was what happened to it and so on...ken....

____

10-17-2004, 02:28 PM

thanks homies. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

boones,it rides pretty good,better than i expected actually.
ive got 454fullsize truck coil springs cut down in front and in the rear i have the frontcoils also cut down.

btw,boones,this is all your fault! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Kev Nemo

10-17-2004, 02:49 PM

Could someone do a tech post on some basic hydro setups?(front, back, pancake)

ChrisinPhilly

10-18-2004, 05:00 PM

bttt

10-18-2004, 05:34 PM

[ QUOTE ]
The info that I read in Lowrider was Ron Aguire's X-sonic was the first equipped with hydraulics. That (I believe) is a Starbird built, Watson (I know) painted full kustom. Reverend Jake

[/ QUOTE ]

Starbird didn't build that. Hines started installing juice in the early '60s, but Ron might just have been one of the first. He's a cool guy (Aguire, but so is Hines, just older!).

Anyway, juice is good, when it doesn't leak!

Butt-man...next time you head back out, bring the Monte--and the pink slip!

oldchevyseller

10-18-2004, 06:13 PM

[ QUOTE ]
Could someone do a tech post on some basic hydro setups?(front, back, pancake)

[/ QUOTE ]this is the best for introduction to how it should go to gether or any questions you have there are many lowrider sites, http://www.layitlow.com/tech.shtml

FONZI

10-18-2004, 06:55 PM

Diggin it Butt.

Hey Dante -
My chevy came from Felix when it was new!

FONZI

Sailor

01-07-2005, 09:24 AM

Damn, Raaf, thats a pretty interesting link. Learned a lot from that one. Thanks.

Stone

02-15-2005, 04:09 AM

This is a cool thread.I'm not into the new lowriders but those old ones you guys were posting and talking about are cool.I have been looking everywhere to no avail for pics of the X-sonic vette.Anyone have any?

Sam F.

02-15-2005, 06:58 PM

here's some pics of the X sonic in various stages

Sam F.

02-15-2005, 06:59 PM

click on the lil pics in the above post for better shots

Stone

02-15-2005, 07:20 PM

Thanks Butt.Those rule.Does anyone know what happened to the car?

Boones

02-15-2005, 07:35 PM

This thread just keeps coming back..

Butt, I will be glad take the blame for that this... i have alwaysliked the classic lowrider look but never had the courage to actually build one (thou the wagon has hints of it in its styling). I actually have a set of 59 Impala 2 bar spinners that I bought over 10 yrs ago to someday put on a set of large hub wires for the old school look (you mount the spinner on the flat cap)

If I could get 14x7 on the wagon I would buy a set but its way to low in the front to allow it (would sit the cross member on the ground) ..... unless I install front air (to go with the rear)..

I dig the Sonic X, it needs to be cloned by someone..

Kev Nemo

02-15-2005, 08:29 PM

Sam F.

07-08-2005, 11:37 AM

looks like Boyd is building a LOWRIDER tonight on AMERICAN HOT ROD?!?!?

should be very interesing:D

http://dsc.discovery.com/schedule/episode.jsp?episode=33&cpi=24832&gid=12300&channel=DSC

lownslow

07-08-2005, 11:57 AM

Tony Bones

07-08-2005, 12:00 PM

I love me some lowrider.

mikes51

07-08-2005, 01:24 PM

YEAH this should be interesting .. i need a good laugh ...

From their site, "wide wheels". Is that the new tv term for 'fourteens'. Too bad I don't have cable. Hmm, maybe I'm better off not seeing it.

Boones, I took this shot last week at a local show.

.http://mikejang.com/images/DCP_1490.JPG

Comet

07-08-2005, 02:12 PM

looks like Boyd is building a LOWRIDER tonight on AMERICAN HOT ROD?!?!?

should be very interesing:D

http://dsc.discovery.com/schedule/episode.jsp?episode=33&cpi=24832&gid=12300&channel=DSC
:rolleyes: From the site: Boyd's task is to rebuild a 1959 Impala nicknamed "Ghetto Princess." The crew turns this two-door coupe into a classic low rider with an extra low stance, wide wheels, and big block Chevy and speedster style.
I don't think Boyd knows what the definition of classic is!

gettingreasy

07-08-2005, 08:48 PM

I recently bought a '66 IMP 4 door hardtop thats gettin the lowrider treatment. Mine will someday have bags and shaved handles with Cragars or Astros and a spray bomb lace roof(hopefully this weekend), but first I need it to run for more than 30 seconds.
-Jesse

chopperimpala

07-08-2005, 10:09 PM

[QUOTE=butt reynolds]
anyways, just wondering if there are any websites dedicated to old school lowriders,,,

[QUOTE]

i didn't read the whole thread 'cause i didn't have the time but:... and there are "some posers" there too, BUT also there are some true (i hate this term) 'ole skool dudes there too... www.layitlow.com .. but (oh man thats a lot of BUTS!!) beware there are some "internet gansta's" there too. that and "impalas.com" that club has been around for a while and mostly lowrider peeps also. if someone has already posted these "sorry" just tryin' to help out a fellow ---L O R I D A H--- ...KEN

Sam F.

07-08-2005, 10:36 PM

i didn't read the whole thread 'cause i didn't have the time but:... and there are "some posers" there too, BUT also there are some true (i hate this term) 'ole skool dudes there too... www.layitlow.com .. but (oh man thats a lot of BUTS!!) beware there are some "internet gansta's" there too. that and "impalas.com" that club has been around for a while and mostly lowrider peeps also. if someone has already posted these "sorry" just tryin' to help out a fellow ---L O R I D A H--- ...KEN

thanks Ken,,yup layit low is cool,i check it out often,,.but like you said though
alot of posers,,,,

alot of the dudes there with the idea of the ULTIMATE LOWRIDER is a 96 cadi or a 87 regal,,alot are TOO young to care about the REAL SHIT... then there are also the dudes that all they care about are having PRO BUILT 100K lowriders and dont give a fuck about the heritage,,,,...i guess im just stuck in the middle,,,,:D

sam

chopperimpala

07-08-2005, 10:59 PM

[QUOTE=butt reynolds]thanks Ken,,yup layit low is cool,i check it out often,,.but like you said though
alot of posers,,,,

HEY,

whats up "holmes", glad you agree with me!! i thread lightly around here on the "lowrider" subject!! i myself am 38 y/o grew up in san diego but look and act like i am 24/25 married to a latina (there aint nothing like a latina in your life)!!! i have 3-'64 impalas, and 1- 63 impala, and 1-'64 wagon....ALL lo-lo's!!!! BUT I ALSO AM INTO CUSTOMS, AND rods!!! not STREET RODS, BUT "real" HOT RODS!!!! i have a '49 fleetline, and '57 olds, and am in the process of getting a "32 5 window"....CHEVY!!! so keep in touch i see that we see the same thing, i also see others on here with the same feelings but are even MORE hesitant on the "lowrider" subject. BUT I like it!!!

lownslow

07-08-2005, 11:49 PM

whats up chop ,
i am on layitlow too ....... and as many know i am a hardcore lo lo guy ... not afraid to admit it on here either ..... just ask sammy .haha ....... i wanna see pix of your impalas ...... sam was born into lows .. ask him about his dad ........

Aeroman

09-21-2005, 11:02 AM

bump

Also, check out www.chevybombs.com

Stone

09-21-2005, 07:07 PM

You guys got anymore pics of the X sonic? I lost the pics and can't find anymore now.

rockabillybassman

09-21-2005, 07:23 PM

Sure, there's one here.... www.jalopjournal.com/forum (http://www.jalopjournal.com/forum) :D

Stone

09-21-2005, 07:40 PM

Sure, there's one here.... www.jalopjournal.com/forum (http://www.jalopjournal.com/forum) :D
Comes up as a dead link for me.?

____

10-15-2005, 10:46 PM

back to the top

DrJ

10-15-2005, 10:51 PM

Comes up as a dead link for me.?

That's because it's sposed to be this. (http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=5)

LiL' NiCk

10-16-2005, 03:35 AM

I wanna see more bombs & chebbys please! thank-u :)

Aeroman

10-16-2005, 01:47 PM

I wanna see more bombs & chebbys please! thank-u :)

You asked for it:

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Aeroman

10-16-2005, 01:48 PM

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Aeroman

10-16-2005, 01:50 PM

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Aeroman

10-16-2005, 01:53 PM

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LiL' NiCk

10-16-2005, 10:05 PM

Hell-ya! THANK-U aeroman!
I love 'ol chebbys (49-54) & the ol bombs (40's), I even own one!:) The funny thing is I'm not latino or live in California :D-I I wish I could see these in milwaukee!...THANX!!!!!

Hoptup Jalop

10-17-2005, 12:18 AM

great post by all that contributed so far......thanks for digging out the old pics and personal experiences....just spent the past 2 hours reading the full thread and visitng the various sites

Aeroman

10-17-2005, 08:07 AM

visit my site, www.chevybombs.com

Hipstreet

01-02-2006, 01:32 AM

Bumpity,bumpity, bump,Bump City

laloszephyr

01-02-2006, 11:47 PM

this is a great topic, growing up in la puente some of my best memories are crusing whittier in my neighbors 65 impala and 49 4 door, i was at mooneyes last year and remember some impalas showed up and recall some people saying what in the f are they doing here instead of looking at the work the owners put into them this years mooneyes show was good not great at least to me some of those bombs are better to look at then the junk that some guys build and drag to these car shows maybe thats why i love paso you see everything from hot rods, kustoms, lowriders etc. im working on my zephyr plus a 53 chevy that i got from an old timer who bought it at felix chevrolet still has the felix plate guard the straight six is staying with pee shooters. wanting the best of both worlds, keep the pic's comming guys.:)

Kev Nemo

01-03-2006, 09:11 AM

Aeroman

01-03-2006, 11:46 AM

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Aeroman

01-03-2006, 11:46 AM

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