Not too many years ago, Freddie Brown, Jr. of Los Angeles, California, was an impressionable young man who received his first taste of lowriders and liked it. "I got into lowriding through my uncle 'Lil' Hub'," relates Freddie. "He had all kinds of cars, mostly Cadillacs. Then I just started buying Lowrider Magazine and I was hooked. I would see these unbelievable cars in the magazine and I just had to have one."
Now fully grown up and a professional real estate investor, Freddie does indeed have one of those "unbelievable" cars. The inspiration for Freddie's '59 Chevy Impala? How about the pages of "America's number one cruising magazine"? "There it was in the June 2000 issue," recalls Freddie, "'Noble Nine' [Ricky Munoz' gold and white '59 Impala]. Once I saw that car, I knew that a two-tone '59 would be the first lowrider that I'd build. I saw a '59 advertised in Old Car Trader, we settled on $6,000 and my dream began."
The '59 that Freddie calls "Fredom (or Freedom) '59" was worked on by some of SoCal's top lowrider builders, including Bowtie Connection, Big Worm's Restoration and Homies Hydraulics (see Tech Specs for the lowdown). Freddie praises them all for making his first lowrider one for the books. He also thanks his uncle who got him interested in lowriding all those years ago, his cousin "Poker," his son Dom and everyone else who helped build the car and put Freddie on the road to freedom.