Smile at a low rider

When ever I look at low rider car magazines I can't help but notice that almost all the "homies" are posed with serious, bad ass expressions on their faces. Almost never will you see a smile. Isn't owning and driving a low rider fun? By the looks on these dudes faces you wouldn't think so. The only reason I can figure for this is that they want to portray a tuff, gangster image, which is something I guess I just can't relate to. I actually like many of the cars, and can appreciate the work they put into them. It seems a shame they can't smile. :) Oh well, to each their own. :dunno:

lol. you gotta keep up the thug life image or else you wont get M@d Respect.

Yeah but low-riding cholo vatos were thugging around loooooong before it became popular to act like a "gangsta". Vatos like that have been around since the '50s - way before every wannabe from the suburbs started dressing and posing that way.

I keep thinking of Pedro's two vato cousins in "Napolean Dynamite" they never smiled - funny shit.

lol. you gotta keep up the thug life image or else you wont get M@d Respect.
LMFAO! :rofl:

lol. you gotta keep up the thug life image or else you wont get M@d Respect.
I like that, that is cool.

I keep thinking of Pedro's two vato cousins in "Napolean Dynamite" they never smiled - funny shit.

yes they did, at Pedro's celebration. One of them does anyway.

I hate lowriders and I hate even more when people call my truck a low rider. Low riders are equated to small wheels, old impalas and cutlass'. Oh yea can't forget the hydraulics. Everytime I see the people you're talking about they have this look on their face like they're gonna pull out a glock and blast away. Cheer up!

Texas, your avatar is a lowrider...your truck is not. People are stupid...slap them.

Texas, your avatar is a lowrider...your truck is not. People are stupid...slap them.
Nope, neither are low riders. Both sport trucks. Unelss your talking about her bikini, then yes it is a low rider.:grinyes:

^ Hi-oh!

Actually, I would consider the truck in your avatar a low rider, but to the true definition, it would have to have small rims..

Unelss your talking about her bikini, then yes it is a low rider.:grinyes:
i don't think it's low enough....i can still see her ankles...:naughty:








>edit< ok, you can't see her ankles...but i was trying to be funny...

Since when did low-lows have to have small rims? What about a Caddy with 20's, bowling ball paint, hydro's and crushed velour interior? :screwy: I'd call it big fat huuuuuurrrrrrrtiiiing, but it seems it's a lowrider to me. I've always loved them, just not for myself. They have excellent artwork not just in murals, but in the paint, ghost patterns etc. I like wires on classic cars, low trucks are hot too. I must admit, I'd rather have a fast ass race truck than one with hydros, but they are cool none the less. Different styles, man. I mean, I'm much older than most people that drive Civics, but it's what I like. We're all into cars/trucks, just different types of each.

:smokin: :smokin: :smokin:

BTW that black truck is sick.

^^^ I agree. I can appreciate the wild paint jobs and even the crazy velour and mirror interiors, even though my favorites are the older cars with subtle paint jobs and almost stock interiors. Hydraulics are always cool in my book.

The low rider guys might be afraid to smile but the girls seem to more than make up for it! :naughty:

Yeah, chicks that like cars are hot. I need to go to a show now that I live in Fl. There weren't too many back home in DC.

Man, i always loved slammed pickups. And i love even more telling that to the hicks i work with. One guy brought in his new truck today - an 80-something chevy...something. biiig pickup, lifted with huge mudders and whatnot. I was telling the guys "well its ok... except its aobut 4 feet too high. I'd slam it down to the ground, put nice wheels on it, a good paintjob, yadda yadda yadda" you shoulda seen the looks on these rednecks faces. Ah i wish i still had my old toyota pickup that was already lowered and had the cragers just to put it in their faces. that thing ruled.

Man, i always loved slammed pickups. And i love even more telling that to the hicks i work with. One guy brought in his new truck today - an 80-something chevy...something. biiig pickup, lifted with huge mudders and whatnot. I was telling the guys "well its ok... except its aobut 4 feet too high. I'd slam it down to the ground, put nice wheels on it, a good paintjob, yadda yadda yadda" you shoulda seen the looks on these rednecks faces. Ah i wish i still had my old toyota pickup that was already lowered and had the cragers just to put it in their faces. that thing ruled.
:lol: I know the look. So was it the same size tires all around or were there 2 stockers up front and 2 boggers in the rear? How about rust? Rednecks love that stuff.

When most people see a car or truck that is lowered, they think low rider (well most people that I have talked to at car shows and what not). The way I look at these cars is, every personally creation is an extention of the owner personallity. And yes most people that are in magizines never smile, hell I drive a P.O.S. Prizm and even I smile. People are just odd

I like my pickups to be pretty much stock. Maybe visor(sun/lunar), window vents, bug flector, air horns(on the roof), gooseneck/fifth wheel hitch in the bed and such. I guess over the road hauler type of theme. But I appreciate lifted and lowered pick ups. I guess my feeling is the pickup was developed for work not play.