It wasn't long ago that Carlos Valencia, a Graphic Designer by trade, was color correcting other people’s photos.  So for him, getting into photography wasn't that big of a leap. 

As you notice in his photos, color is key to his overall presentation of the images he produces.  With his overall artistic knowledge and his passion for lowriders, he's looking to continue sharing his visions of beauty as he concentrates solely on models and the lowrider movement.

"THEE OTHER BORDER"

"THEE OTHER BORDER"

WONDER WHAT IT WAS LIKE FOR U.S. BORDER AGENTS WATCHING ABOUT 15 CAR CLUBS
OF LOWRIDERS CROSSING INTO THE U,S. FROM CANADA LAST WEEKEND FOR THE
PORTLAND SHOW

MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR "PARTY IN PORTLAND"

THIS PAST SUNDAY, AUGUST 3RD, THE LOWRIDER TOUR STOP LANDED ONCE AGAIN IN PORTLAND OREGON. NOW THIS, WAS A GREAT SHOW. I HAVE NEVER BEEN TO A SHOW THAT HAD AS MUCH SUPPORT AND ADMIRATION FOR THE LOWRIDER SPORT AND MOVEMENT.

CAR CLUBS ROLLED IN DEEP FROM CANADA, WASHINGTON, CALIFORNIA, AND ARIZONA. THOUGH THIS EVENT BROUGHT OUT THE LAST CHANCE TO QUALIFY FOR TH'E SUPER SHOW IN VEGAS, BEAUTIES THAT BROKE OUT LIKE CHRIS ROARKS NEW AQUA 58,(PERFECT SCORE ) TRINOS REVAMPED "CHERRY 64"(JUNE COVER) TOVARS MOST WANTED 37' CABRIOLET (DECEMBER COVER) AND THE STYLISTICS  59' ( NOV.CENTERFOLD) WERE ALL MET WITH THE WAY UP NORTH COMPETITION. IT WAS A TOTAL POSITIVE EXPERINCE ESPECIALLY MEETING ALL THE DIE HARD FANS. VETTE ENGINES AND PESCO TRUNKS WERE IN STYLE ALL OVER THE MASSIVE INDOOR EVENT.

FOR ALL YOU LOWRIDERS THAT HAVE BEEN IN THE GAME FOR A LONG TIME AND HAVE DONE YOUR PART FOR THE SPORT
AND LIFESTYLE OF LOWRIDING, JUST LET ME SAY THAT I WISH YOU COULD HAVE BEEN THERE TO WITNESS WHAT YOUR RESPONSIBLE FOR ! 

THE FANS AND EXHIBITORS REALLY SHOWED THEIR GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION, AND REPRESENTED THE CITIES AND TOWNS THAT THEY CAME FROM, EITHER BY PLAQUE OR BY COLORS. PORTLAND, CANADA, AND WASHINGTON ARE AS STRONG AS CALIFORNIA, AND TEXAS WHEN IT COMES TO REPRESENTING THE CLAIM TO THE # 1 AUTOMOTIVE CULTURE.

THE LOWRIDER CITY OF PORTLAND  WAS A GREAT PLACE TO BE DESPITE WHAT THEIR MAYOR FEELS ABOUT LOWRIDERS, AND OUR IMAGE. YESTERDAY WHAT EVER THE CHIEF OF POLICE OR MAYOR THOUGHT WE WERE ,I HAVE NEVER BEEN PROUDER TO BE ONE! JUST ASK ANYONE WHO DROVE THE 26 HOUR SHOT TO GET THERE THEY WILL TELL YOU THE SONG REMAINS THE
SAME!!

Lowriding is a tradition and that’s why Lowrider Magazine will hit the newsstands with a new special issue that will be coming very soon…

LOWRIDER DADS AND THEIR LOWRIDER BIKE KIDS

If the lowriding culture runs in your family, then please submit photos that include dad and his lowrider in the background, and the kids with their lowrider bikes up front. If you are selected, Lowrider Magazaine will do a follow up with a story on your family affair and then showcase you through the following pages in this special magazine.

Please email photos to joe.ray@sourceinterlink.com

So hurry we only have a few weeks to get this done!

Thanks

WISH YOU WERE HERE

THE DENVER COLISEUM LOWRIDER CAR SHOW THIS PAST WEEKEND WAS A MILE LOW WITH THE RETURN OF 600 LOWRIDERS AND 14,000 SPECTATORS WHO JAMMED THE ARENA TO TAKE ON THE RECORD BREAKING HOPPING CONTEST, RAP SOUNDS, AND BIKINI CONTESTS THAT ONLY A LOWRIDER SHOW CAN THROW!

EVEN WITH GAS AT 10 DOLLARS A GALLON LOWRIDER EXHIBITORS AND SPECTATORS DROVE OUT FROM ALL OVER LOWRIDER U.S.A. THE USUAL ROAD CREW OF MAJESTICS, ROLLERS ONLY, AND UCE CAR CLUBS WERE AT IT AGAIN, AS WERE THE FULLY WRAPPED DISPLAY OF 160 LOWRIDER BIKES IN THE 2ND FLOOR PART OF THE VENUE.

OK WITH ALL THAT SAID, DENVER, COLORADO IS HOME TO THE ROCKIES OF BASEBALL AND THE BRONCOS OF FOOTBALL, AND EVEN THE HOME OF COORS BEER, SO FOR ALL THOSE WHO VISITED FROM OTHER TOWNS AND STATES WE WERE LIKE STRANGERS IN A NEW LAND.  ONCE WE SAW AND GOT TOGETHER WITH ALL THE LOWRIDERS THAT WERE PARKED AND ON DISPLAY WE ALL KNEW WHERE WE WERE FROM THEN.  THAT WAS HOME TO ALL OF US.  WE ALL BELONGED TO DENVER SUNDAY, ONE CITY ONE LOWRIDER NATION.  NO MATTER WHERE YOUR FROM LOWRIDERS ALL LOOK THE SAME.

We finally got the chance to travel to beautiful Miami to see what all the hype is about... I hear it constantly…the women in MIA are so beautiful, the women are so exotic, the women are sooooo sexy...blah, blah, blah...

So basically after all that east coast talk I had to travel down to see what was really good...and yes you guys sure was right!!!!!!!!!! They are definitely bringing the heat


Check out Angelica, Saigia, and Nayer represent for the East Coast, on newsstands now!

Pathway of Life Car Show 2008 Outreach!

Pathway of Life Car Show 2008 Outreach! Get ready for a fun filled day for everyone. Coming June 14, 2008 from 1pm - 4pm, right here at Pathway of Life Church, Dallas Texas, 75227 - We will be hosting the 2008 CLASSIC CAR SHOW! We will be celebrating the men, young and older, on this Father's Day weekend.

You don't want to miss it! There will be bounce houses, giveaways, lots of food, a basketball tournament, a volleyball tournament and what car show would be a show without a car bashing. We will totally destroy a car in a car bashing contest.

This is the ultimate day for the entire family and IT'S FREE! Invite your friends and family, neighbors and anyone you know. This will be a family fun time.

Pathway of Life Church 8510 Military Pkwy Dallas, TX 75227 (214) 275-7284

We are proud to announce the involvement of Lowrider Magazine in the Castrol Syntec Top Shop Challenge. This challenge will be taking place between the following magazines: Eurotuner, Import Tuner, Modified, Sport Compact Car, Super Street, Turbo and, your favorite, Lowrider Magazine. The purpose of this challenge is to see who can build the best engine that can work for the magazine market. With the guidelines set, we made a game plan and partnered up with GM Performance and Ace Machine to put together one of the baddest big-block engines to be assembled for a lowrider.

Program Overview:
The Castrol Syntec Top Shop Challenge is an engine build-up competition that will involve up to seven selected Source Interlink Media titles and will include editorial coverage and online visibility. The online coverage will allow you to see the lowrider engine being built. While on the site, you will also be allowed to vote for your favorite shop and/or engine.

The Shop: Ace Machine
We’re using Ace Machine in Riverside, California. This shop should sound familiar as it’s been the backbone to performance engines in Lowrider for the past year. With that said, the partnership and chemistry between us and shop owner Jerry Stettler is ready to be taken to the next level. Jerry has been in the game for most of his life. He started wrenching at the age of 18, and after years of working for somebody else, he opened up shop and the rest has been history. Ace has 20 years of engine building experience so Jerry’s seen many engines, domestic as well as import. With experience building the
1.6-liter 4-cylinder Honda that can produce 530 horsepower and run the 1/4-mile in the low 11s, we know that Jerry’s the perfect candidate to build our lowrider engine.

The Engine: ZZ427 – All-New 427 Big-Block
There are few engines that conjure up images of greatness like the 427 Chevy big-block. New to the GM Performance Parts lineup, the ZZ427 big-block crate engine brings back all of the good things that you remember about the 427 with a few modern upgrades. With an updated cast-iron block, 9.5:1 final compression ratio, and aggressive hydraulic roller camshaft, the ZZ427 offers you outstanding performance while still living on low-octane fuel

Buildup Plans:
Plans for the GM Performance crate engine include taking it completely apart and making it even better. From internally to cosmetic, this big block will have it all. The engine is going to be candy painted in a custom fi nish. Once painted, the big-block is going to be dressed up with billet and chrome. We’re going add spark with a bigger distributor, and we will be fl owing oil through a Milodon oil pump and oil pan system. We will also be using a hydraulic cam, lifters and rocker combination
that normally helps create horsepower. The goal is to build up the engine in the way you would find it in the top lowriders in the nation. We’re going to have to produce an engine that will represent the industry to the fullest. With only a few weeks to put it together, we can’t wait to see how this engine build is going to turn out. Remember to check out the build on the Web, but most importantly, remember to vote for your favorite “lowrider”
engine.

By Rosalie Westenskow

LEHI — Paint fumes pervade the small, dusty shop. Sand paper, spray paint cans and rusty old car parts clutter every surface, piled on tables and jumbled together on old wooden boards propped on the hood of a dilapidated Ford. Amid the mess, though, a shiny machine is being assembled, part by part, and, with it, a small piece of history shakes off the dust and re-emerges, better than new.
This 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Club Sedan broke more than 458 national and international records, along with two other cars, in a 20-day trial run of the model at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1956. The three cars raced around the 10-mile track in western Utah about 5,000 times, only

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Article by : Natalia Ciolko

Free the soul, and the car will follow.

Legendary hip-hop group De La Soul is headlining a free show tonight at the Parish. Car company/aspiring cultural avatar Scion is sponsoring the event, just as they did last year with another free De La show.

Scion has spent beaucoup de bucks catering to the hip-hop scene in recent years, sponsoring many free shows during SXSW, this year bringing the noise with a great Ghostface and Rakim show. They've definitely got their marketing down - Scion do-rags and an in-house crew of B-boys (sadly, no B-girls).

I don't know if these concerts have helped them sell cars, but they have improved the life quality of Austin hip-hop fans of all persuasions. The weak point of most Scion free shows is the Scion DJ, who says Scion as many times as possible, for as long as possible, before you get to see who you came for.

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Throw some Dz on it!!!!!!!!!!

This hot song has everyone singing Throw Some Dz on there caddy's.

How do you feel about the song? Give us your input.

What is the number one thing that you see most of the Lowrider guys wearing these days, besides Lowrider Clothing?

Yes you all guessed right, Dickies! Why do you think dickies are such a poular style within the Lowrider Community?

Check out Dickies website

This article is pretty interesting. It was written by Chistina Schmitt. She focuses on the Lowrider Bike scene. Check it out!

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What are your opinions on "video girls" that you see in rap videos these day?

Video Girls are seem as ideal "eye candy" on every rappers music video. Some are seen dancing to the tune of the music, while others lay there and show off there sexy bodies to the world.

 How do you feel about video girls and are you tired of seeing the same ones appearing in the different videos?

Post pictures of the ones you had enough of!

Athletes and their Lowriders....

Do you know any athletes that are interested in Lowrider vehicles? If so let us know or post pictures of your favorite athlete and their lowriders.

What place do you think carries the best hydraulics?

You know one of the key parts to a Lowrider vehicle are the hydraulics. This feature determines how low a lowrider can actually roll. Show us a few pictures of your ride bouncing up and down the blvd.  

Lowrider bikes have been around for years, although nobody has ever really pinpointed when the actual first lowrider bike hit the boulevard. Maybe the closest thing that has ever been documented was the Eddie Munster bike from the '60s TV show The Munsters, a George Barris-customized Schwinn Sting-Ray. The Sting-Ray has been the bike of choice for most lowrider bike builders ever since its introduction in the '60s. The popularity of the Schwinn and similar bikes remained strong throughout the '70s. In the mid '80s, however, Sting-Rays seemed to go into hibernation as BMX and freestyle bikes seem to be the direction that all bike manufacturers and enthusiasts took.

Even though Schwinn and other manufacturers had discontinued their cantilever frames and started specializing in BMX bikes, there was still a market for the old classics. When Lowrider Magazine busted back out in 1988, people started to build cars as well as bikes. There were a few bikes still out there during this hibernation period, but they were cruisers and not show bikes. Slowly but surely, classic Sting-Rays started to become more and more popular. By the beginning of the '90s, the competition started to become intense. As a result, the old Schwinns became far more scarce as well as more expensive.

What is your opinion?

In your opinion, what is the difference between a European Lowrider and a Lowrider vehicle?

Is there a difference in the way they are built or in the way they lay low to the ground?

Let us know, we want to here your opinion

In your opinion, what is the definition of an ideal woman?

Does she have to be smart, sexy, innocent, etc? We all know that women come in all different shapes and sizes. It all depends on the man in which preference they tend to prefer more. Tell us what you like and if you have any pictures, don’t be afraid to post them.

SUPER BOWL XLI

We all know that on Feb.4, all men in the world will be glued to their televisions watching the 2007 Super Bowl XLI. Do you have any major plans this year or are you doing it big and going to see all the entertainment live and in charge.

Whatever you do let us know! 

In your opinion what is the definition of a Lowrider?

We here at Lowrider would love to read what you opinions are?

Chapter One

The Roots of Lowriding.

When the lights go up at today's huge lowrider shows, hundreds of cars gleaming with triple-dipped chrome and gold plating, elaborate candy and metalflake paint jobs, rolling on custom-spoked wire rims featuring the finest spinners money can buy, fans throughout Aztlan (Chicano slang for the American Southwest) and all America, to Japan and Europe, gasp with appreciation and envy. As lowriding has taken the world by storm, it has also taken the mainstream automotive industry by surprise--no one seems to know where the world's number one auto trend came from. Some automotive enthusiasts like to write the sport off as the new cruiser on the block, eyeing hoppers and their high performance hydraulics somewhat suspiciously.

Other custom car historians dig a little deeper, tapping out a few lines about the late '70s, the television show Chico and the Man, and the first few issues of Low Rider Magazine evidence enough that lowriders have enjoyed at least a decade or two on the streets. But, lowriding's roots reach far deeper into history than that, the result of two very different traditions, California car culture and Mexican cultura coming together in Southern California. Lowriding has always had a distinct Mexican flavor, hotter than hot rods and lower than customs.

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Back in 1998, LRM crowned Uso *** the Car Club of the Year, which was quite an accomplishment considering that Uso had only been cruising the streets together for less than a decade. At the start, Uso--who spawned out of the Harbor area of Southern California only had a handful of members in the organization, but in just six short years the club had grown to include 22 chapters nationwide. When we first interviewed Kita Lealoa, the co-founder of the organization, for an article that appeared in the April '98 issue of LRM, he stressed that one of the biggest goals set for the club was to someday be the standard for all other clubs to follow in the future.

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Tips on How To Make Your Ride Dance with Hydraulics

STEP 1: Read "Lowrider." The magazine has articles on how to build a low rider car, and that would include adding hydraulics. These stories will teach you about the process, how many hydraulics might be necessary for your car, and so forth. Look at the advertisements and articles to identify shops you can go to, or at least call for advice.

STEP 2: Go to the low rider shows in your area and question the competitors at the shows. Inspect the hydraulics in their cars and see how the job was done. Don't be afraid to ask questions and get them to recommend shops.

STEP 3: Visit Internet message boards that focus on low riders. There is one at http://lowrider.com.

STEP 4: Surf the Internet for chat rooms whose main topic is low riders and/or cars.

STEP 5: Expect to pay between $2,000 and $3,000 for the work.

STEP 6: Visit the shops you have identified. Ask them how long they've been in business and how many cars they've done. If a shop does 50 cars a year, that's pretty good.

STEP 7: Watch the installer do the work. Is the work clean?

STEP 8: Ask about photo albums. Review the albums and have the sales representative tell you what the photos show.

STEP 9: Ask the sales rep and/or installer exactly what they intend to do with your car. Their explanations should be detailed. You don't want surprises.

STEP 10: Ask about warranties and guarantees. Be prepared for the fact that things are going to break when you get hydraulics that are meant to make your car jump up and down, and/or side to side.

STEP 11: Choose the shop you feel most comfortable with.

Can add more steps!!!

Souce: LOWRIDER NEWS.COM

Cars. What can I say about cars? Only that everyone wants one. There are many types of cars; old cars, street racing cars, trucks, SUVs, to name a few. But around here, lowrider cars are a lot more popular than any other cars. For example if you ask most teenage guys what kind of car they want, they usually say “I want some rims, a good system (bass, CD player, Subs, etc.) and an awesome paint job.”

But cars are very expensive. They don’t come cheap, you know. That’s why the people who can’t afford to spend thousands of dollars to buy or fix up a lowrider car, buy lowrider bikes instead. But some lowrider bikes cost as much as $4,000 when they’re completely fixed up.

So why would someone want to spend that much money on a bike? Well, lowrider bikes are very in and they are still cheaper than a car. Nearly everyone who can’t afford a lowrider car wants a lowrider bike because they are fun to ride and to customize with
accessories.

Accessories play a big part of the car or bike. They add style to your bike or car. And even though bikes aren’t as big as cars, you can still add all kinds of accessories to your bike like rims, special seats, special paint jobs, custom suspension, a steering wheel and even a sound system. You can even lower or “drop” the bike.

Lowrider bikes are very different from other bikes in many ways: the shape is different, the tires are smaller, the frame has to fit the parts exactly in order for the bike to be ridable, and the handlebars are much higher than normal bikes. Lowrider bikes can also be difficult to ride, but most people catch on pretty easily.

So if you aren’t ready to lay out the cash for a lowrider car, think about getting into a bike. You can start with the basics and keep adding accessories. But if you want to pimp out your car or bike, you better start savin’!

Can’t afford a lowrider car?
Here’s what it might take to get into lowrider bike:
$ 210 Basic Bike
$ 150 Body Work
$ 500 Murals
$ 16 Tires
$ 60 Baby D Rims
$ 45 Steering Wheel
$ 250 Hydraulics

Source: Riding Low on Lowriders: Justin Quiroz Opinion

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