Lowrider: History, Pride, Culture [Hardcover]

Paige Penland (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 2003

Pride, artistry, culture, and unity are just a few words that describe the lowrider lifestyle and movement. This book chronicles the entire lowrider movement focusing on the cars, the culture, and the people who have created one of the hottest growing multicutural movements in the automotive industry. What is Lowriding? A lowrider vehicle has a low stance, a flashy paint job, and many adornments to the interior. It's also very common to have a mural, often a memorial or tribute to a family member, painted on the top of the trunk. Throughout many Mexican-American neighborhoods, from East Los Angeles to El Paso, cruisers have been dropping their vehicles to a sidewalk-scraping stance since the late 1930s when zoot suits were high fashion. In the past few years, lowriding has spread all over the world, including a lowriding craze across Japan.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 156 pages
• Publisher: Motorbooks; First edition (August 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 076031599X
• ISBN-13: 978-0760315996
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 10.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,463,348 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Paige R. Penland is a freelance writer currently based in Granada, Nicaragua. She specializes in Central American and Mexican travel. You can follow Paige at http://twitter.com/paigerpenland, or contact her directly at paigerpenland [at] hotmail.com.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Enlightening, February 28, 2004

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Patricia P. Mouton (Syracuse, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lowrider: History, Pride, Culture (Hardcover)

This book ROCKS. I have always been vaguely familiar with the Low Rider scene (I love when the Oldies station cranks up the old tune) but being about as ethnic as a loaf of Wonder bread, and living in the snow-belt Northeast, my knowledge was limited to a few rather brief glimpses in music videos and the like. What stood out most of all was the fact that you never really see these cars in Upstate NY.

This book has given me an understanding of the history, the mechanics, and most of all the culture of Low-riding, something I otherwise would never have been exposed to. If you're already a Low Rider enthusiast, you'll love this work, it will serve almost as an encylopedia. If you're like me, curious, but of little to no background, this book will more than prove what all the hubbub is about. I highly recommend this work to anyone with an interest in automotive history.