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Car hydraulics are equipment installed in an automobile that allows for a dynamic adjustment in height of the vehicle. These suspension modifications are often placed in a lowrider, i.e., a vehicle modified to lower its ground clearance below that of its original design. With these modifications, the body of the car can be raised by remote control.
A lowrider or low rider is a customized car with a lowered body that emerged among Mexican American youth in the 1940s. [3] Lowrider also refers to the driver of the car and their participation in lowrider car clubs , which remain a part of Chicano culture and have since expanded internationally.
Lowrider cruising — the slow driving of lowered American cars and trucks tricked out with fancy hydraulics and paint jobs — has been banned on Fresno streets for more than 30 years.
Waiting there along the KCK street were 50 eye-catching, lowrider cars — painted bright reds, greens and blues with gold and chrome rimmed wheels, gleaming under the sunlight.
Lowrider: Hydraulic or airbag suspension setups, custom paint, pinstriping, custom interior, and, typically, small diameter wire wheels. Others may look like straight restorations, aside from a low stance.
Lowriders, classic or vintage model cars that have been modified to sit as close to the ground as possible through a variety of customization techniques, became an integral part of Chicano culture ...
An early "true" vintage Cal-Style Volkswagen, built by Robert Velis in 1982 (Huntington Park, southeast LA, 1983)A Cal-Style VW is a lowrider influenced vintage Volkswagen, that for style and cruising was lowered to the extreme in the manner called "dumped" "slammed" or "laid out".
For a while, lowrider car cruising kind of stopped happening throughout the city, but it's started to come back — at Elysian Park now, on the weekends, you'll see a lot of lowrider car shows ...