Old Street Scenes

[al8apex]

<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 &quot;Lincoln hats&quot; 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 &quot;new&quot; 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 &quot;turf&quot; / 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

[CC Rider]

Cool stuff!

[Bill Pritchard]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: al8apex</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The world and Van Nuys Blvd was a different place back then ...

There was no machismo &quot;turf&quot; / 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 </div></div>

Ain't that the truth [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/frown.gif[/img] And that reminds me...the first time I went to Los Angeles was in 1980. My brother-in-law and I went to Van Nuys Blvd for the cruising scene - and I have a <span style="text-decoration: underline">LOT</span> of pictures from that night. I'll have to scan them and post here some time....

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[al8apex]

that is a bizarre looking 57 wagon rear window ....