If you're lucky, you live in a town with a regular lowrider cruise, so you're familiar with the unexpected pleasure of seeing something glittering and striped in the next lane suddenly lift up like a ...

The newest exhibition at the Denver Art Museum celebrates the Chicano car culture that took root in the barrios of Southwestern America. "The lowrider is an integral part of the Southwestern landscape ...

And while the combination of her love of lowriders and fine art makes sense to her, it’s not always obvious to others. “It’s funny that in the art world, sometimes I'm not taken seriously because of ...

They’re equipped with state of the art hydraulics, sport spectacularly intricate paint jobs, pristine decked-out interiors and they’ve become cultural icons while riding low on four wheels. They’re ...

In January of 2024 a new law in California ended the anti-cruising bans in the state, bans that were created in the 1980s in response to lowriders largely from Latino and Black communities. As the ...

CHICAGO — For Luis Martinez, competing in lowriding bike and car competitions is about more than glory and bragging rights. The lowrider clubs in the Chicago area have become like one big family and a ...

As they walked down Fifth Street on a recent afternoon, a couple speaking Japanese stopped in front of a window display housing a bright orange Harley Davidson Road King. Its immaculate paint job was ...

This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Bill Whitaker took a little trip to Española, New Mexico, the self-proclaimed lowrider capital of the world. Lowriders are exactly what they sound like: cars ...

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