“LRM Staff When LRM photographer Saul Vargas was strolling the aisles at the Arizona State Fairgrounds during the Phoenix, Arizona, Lowrider Tour kickoff”

Fernando Solis was born and raised in the north side of Visalia, California. Since it's mostly a Latino neighborhood, it was normal to see lowriders creeping and riding low all over the streets and 'hoods.

Albert Gonzalez, Jr. of Downey, California, wanted to build a car that would be remembered in lowrider circles, and when he first finished his '63 Chevy Impala a decade ago, he knew that he was on the right track.

Some surfing and smart shopping helped this rider from down South land the ideal '64 Chevy Impala SS to build his dreams upon. Since he was young, Curtis Pivot of Louisville, Kentucky, has been hanging around the store at Smart Shoppers, the family store for e...

When naming a car, sometimes you know before you even start and sometimes it just falls into your lap. The latter would be true with this '61 Chevy Impala, "Black Widow." This car received its name while it was at a photo shoot.

We first thought that Jose Castro's '63 Chevy Impala convertible, "Pumpkinhead," rolling out of El Paso, Texas, was inspired by the 1988 movie of that name in which a man conjures up a gigantic vengeance demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy the teenagers who ac...

It's no surprise that Anthony Aguilar acquired an interest in automotive customizing. For this resident of Surprise, Arizona, hot cars just run in the family. "Cars are a big part of our family," Anthony admits.

Troy Staehler of Rollerz Only Car Club started his lowriding journey in the 12th grade. As Troy tells it, "I started with a Chevy S-10 truck. I lifted it at Orlie's, threw on some Daytons and a Nardi steering wheel, and quickly sold it to buy a '63 SS Impala.

This mildly customized '62 Chevy SS was built with the same early '60s styling cues as last week's '62 Olds Starfire. Car Craft Magazine was the bible to young men building "sophisticated" hot rods in the day.

Welcome to Down On The Street , where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Today we're going to head over to a part of town that was created by filling in a few hundred yards of San Francisco B...