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Lowrider

Lowrider

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Author: Paige Penland
Publisher: Motorbooks
Category: Book

List Price: $34.95
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars 1 reviews
Sales Rank: 620229

Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 156
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 10.2 x 0.9

ISBN: 076031599X
Dewey Decimal Number: 629
EAN: 9780760315996
ASIN: 076031599X

Publication Date: August 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Perfect Condition

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
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.



Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Enlightening   February 29, 2004
 5 out of 5 found this review helpful

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.

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