Cool car show

By at 5:26 pm Sunday, Aug 27

Coop went to a lowrider car show in LA today and took tons of great photos. This car looks like it could climb a tree!
Blogger 968 1002 400 Img 1985 Artist and hotrodder Robert Williams points to the example of the Indian longrifle as one of many instances of humans’ interaction with, and need to transform, the impersonal products of the Industrial Revolution into something more relatable, more human, something with a soul. Hot rodding and car customization are a part of this long history, too. Perhaps the most perfect example, in fact.

The history of the lowrider in Hispanic culture is long and storied, and parallels neatly with the history of hot rodding, sometimes intertwining, and sometimes traveling far afield.

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