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Lowrider Cars: Clubs
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With the advent of lowrider culture, the individualistic American dream of driving away to escape it all has been replaced with the notion of driving together. Lowriders organize in car clubs and go cruising on weekends on specific boulevards, updating the old Mexican practice of walking around the town plaza on Sundays in order to socialize and flirt with the girls. They drive slow, pumping their music and blocking traffic, messing with a social system that is not eager to accept them. Their cars are turned into political and aesthetic signifiers. No longer tools of efficient, modern transportation (which in fact they never really were), they beome a medium of expression. The Highway Patrol remembers the Alamo, and has declared war on the lowriders, closing first Whittier Boulvard in 1979 and later other streets, from Hollywood to Wan Nuys.
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Sunday Driver takes a look at the phenomenon of lowrider cars in California, particularly the Majestics car club out of Compton. This car club is perhaps one of the best known in the country. Members of the Majestics have to truly love low riding cars (cars with hydraulic lifts) and be committed not only to lowriding, but ... to the club in general. That means a strict adherence to club rules. Gang banging is not allowed, even though a large amount of the club members are ex-gang members.
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Dreamz To Reality Customz - Mini-trucks, fullsize trucks, vans, lowriders, 4x4s, compact cars, and motorcyles. Contact the club for more information or if you are interested in becoming a member or starting a chapter. Call or email Ron Hall, recuiter, (912)929-4758, or Dawn Watson, treasurer, at (912)736-0402. For chapter II, email president Scott Adams, or secretary/treasurer Amy Smith.
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The History of the Duke's Car Club The Duke's were pioneers in the lowrider car show. Between the years 1966 and 1977 the Duke's were featured at Trident Car Shows which later became R.G.
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