Re: Old Street Scenes
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Bill Pritchard</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Great pictures, Jim, thanks for posting.
A lowrider in '74???? Man, that absolutely had to be the start of that trend. </div></div>
We saw several on Van Nuys and spoke with one of the owners of one and he showed us how the springs were cut and the "Lincoln hats" were used with the hydraulics to raise and lower the cars ... all were Impalas back then (and that 66 Caprice). This took place in a parking lot on VNB. People cruised and they parked.
We understood from him that is wasn't "new" it had been going on for some time apparently, how long would be hard to tell.
The world and Van Nuys Blvd was a different place back then ...
There was no machismo "turf" / gang bs, just all types of car people showing their cars and cruising ...
There were the low riders, the hot rods, street machines / muscle cars, the custom vans (wrassle castles) and the jacked up off road trucks, quite a spectrum of interests
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Jim R
Scottsdale, AZ
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