A Smithsonian traveling exhibition maps the family ties and ingenuity behind lowriders—from post-World War II Chicano pride on boulevards to global car shows Aurora Martínez - Staff Contributor On ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — State lawmakers are embracing New Mexico’s time-honored culture of transforming customized lowrider cars into rolling canvases of artistic expression and a source of community pride.

On most weekends, you can find Sandy Avila driving the streets of California in her 1984 Oldsmobile Cutlass lowrider, hydraulics hissing as she makes her car dip down and rise again. “Lowriding for me ...