How Lowriders Were A Protest Against White Supremacy - Past Gas #72
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- On January 1, 1959, the government of California tried to kill the lowrider movement. But their efforts backfired-- instead giving rise to a golden age of cars that bounced and tilted like magic. Lowriders became a protest movement on wheels. How did conflicts between lowriders and the cops play out? How are lowriders connected to the history of Chicano culture in the US? And who are the modders and mechanics who made it all happen? On today’s Past Gas, take a little trip with James, Nolan, and Joe, as they dive into the story of lowriders.
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When it comes to lowrider culture...
You can't forget the Lowrider mission from GTA:San Andreas and "West Coast Poplock" song
I love low riders, they look sick and they never block the fast lane. Better to low ride an old Monte Carlo than stance a sports car.
You're entitled to your opinion on the internet. I honestly have to be that guy and my opinion is that people can enjoy their car/vehicle/mode of transport however they see fit, cars to some are a thing they use to get to a destination while to others cars are literally giving people a livelihood to continue being a human being. We all have different tastes and ideas and that's what I like about vehicles, no 2 cars are the same, fact! Down to a molecular level they are all different and I love finding out what is different about each vehicle. Same goes for the modified scene of road/race automobiles. I'm fascinated by what people like and don't like
I can't stand stanced cars, they all look like tired cartoon cars.
Stanced cars are terrible. They look stupid and have to ride like shit. They are just as bad as that burble tune garbage people do.
To each their own
@@ThatsQuacktastic The only lowered cars that look good in my opinion are the Lowriders and the Japanese Shakotan-yankii cars the stanced cars look hideous .
I just want to say that this is one of my favorite episodes ever. Y’all are just great. Being a Chicano in the Midwest makes me sad that I don’t see low riders, but they are so banging. Also- James mocking Ben Shapiro is a mood
I would watch a whole series of James dunking on Ben. 10/10
I live in Indianapolis, shame they’re not around here more, Lowriders are works of art
@@zachhoward9099 Nebraska here. There’s a few in Omaha, but not nearly as many as I’d like to see
I’m from Inglewood and there are a lot of them back home ESPECIALLY right now since it’s Hispanic heritage month 🇲🇽
Finally a lowrider episode, I can rest easy now
100%
Believe it , or not, the word "SLAB", came from Lowriders. In the 1980s.
Before the Acronym "S.L.A.B." , came later for Pimpcars. Which was already out there #nationwide, especially mainly from the East Coast.
"White" dude name Les Dunham, who is around and is currently operatin' at his shop "Dunham Coach" , is the inventor of the Pimpcars.
The ORIGINAL Super Fly film, of 1972 is proof of this.
Donut Media, should interview him.
#Slab, in just a word term ,meant a car that is low to the fukin' slab of the pavement. Hence "slab".
i know it's quite off topic but does anybody know of a good site to stream newly released tv shows online ?
@Dakota Jad thank you, I signed up and it seems to work :D I appreciate it!!
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When I read the title my mind went straight to Ramon from cars.
Dude same. Him sparking down main street with those neon lights in the background ✨ 😲
Oh look, it's Von Dutch.
Glad i’m not the only one 😂 fast and furious seems like an obvious favorite movie of everyone who watches donut, but i bet the amount of people who loved Cars when they were younger is waaaaay higher than people would expect
I woke up, just to listen to you guys, after this, I'm going to go to sleep, while being well-informed, thank you for this!
same bro haha
@@nate91198 My Man
You’ll see a random low rider sometimes here in LA, but a better chance at seeing them is on Sundays, where most crews go for a cruise as a group
Lowriders are my favorite car genera. I'm from Northern California, not as much lolos in LA, but still lots of lowriders. The first time I saw a vehicle hit switches, I was hooked. By the time I was 20 I owned at least 4 cars with hydraulics. I'm 30 now, building a 1964 Pontiac Grand Prix right now.
I think lowriders are SO BEAUTIFUL. I'm not huge on murals and crazy patterns, and I think 14" wire wheels are better than 13s... 13s are just slightly too small for me. I like a car that looks like a mint condition cream puff, just on wires hydraulic, frame painted to match the paint, chrome undercarriage. I like stock interiors just immaculate, maybe a 2 tone paint job but mostly just 1 color hella clean.
Meanwhile i havent done shot with my life lmao im 28 havent had a car. My girl does tho and i drive all the time but dont mean its mine lol your comment made me feel like a bum frfr
@@dariusgwathney5513 don't dwell on the past just move forward. One of the reason I like lowriders is that you can build one for not too much money. You can get an 80s oldsmobile cutlass for 3500ish, some wire wheels for less than a g, and hydraulics for about 2gs. Now, for around 6k, you've got a car that's going to get all kinds of attention, reliable, dependable and hitting switches with hydraulics are so much fun!
This couldn’t have dropped at a better time. Lowriding is back full force.
Forreal! Love to see it
Y'all should do an episode on competition car audio! The wheelhouse episode about radios was great, but a Past Gas or something about the recent history and various styles of builds as well as world record dBs would be awesome.
ur a legend, didnt think i find a basshead here :D
Just come down to Whittier Boulevard in East L.A. Its popping with lowriders every Weekend!
Now the cops are putting a stop to it again smfh, East Los Sheriffs are lames
The ben shapiro roast had me rolling 😆
yeah hahaha! i love how Donut is so chill but genuinely progressive, styling all over Bencil Sharpiner just makes it gold plated XD
these dudes are dorks
Only seen 1, in my life time. Beautiful car riding on 3, on high st in Columbus Ohio I was coming back from back surgery. Made my day.
Whenever you see a low-rider you'll always see our Mexican culture. On display. ✌️ ❤️
What about us blacks and other cultures!
@@ronnierowe1312 y'all can lowrider also , just don't forget what nationality started it , us mexs did and we are proud of it
Fun Fact: Lowrider Euro was the catalyst for Import Tuner culture.
That was a really nice "keep it juiced" at the end there Joe!
hey dude thanks
It's so cool to know that hydraulics was utilized in order to prevent the cops. Thought it was just a showboat back then
A history on truck culture would be cool, like how we got into those 90s trucks with the skirts and crazy paint jobs and stuff to bagged duallys and 10 second trucks
The bed raising up, every body panel separating and spinning in opposite directions. Aztec and Mayan murals on the hoods. Was an awesome time
Joes hat looks like an oldschool iPod
Hy-Low season 3: Hydraulics and Lowriders?
Too expensive.
@@OmggItsMemo Uh not that any of these comments should be taken seriously, but they spent 20k on low car and 50k on hi car. It's 100% feasible. They'll probably spend that much again on the tacomas
I will 100% order a "DONUT" gold window placard. No joke, sign me up.
And the jacket too!
"War" is a fire band
Thanks for showing love to the lowrider scene. Great content as always.
I’ve watched this 3 times already and every time you guys start singing lowrider I have to pause the video and go listen to the song 😂😂😂😂 I love lowriders and I’m gunna try and do a lowrider style to my truck
Never been to LA But I grew up in New Mexico and I loved seeing every kind of lowriders you can possibly imagine! I lived I'm Roswell but Carlsbad, Albuquerque, and are or where a big part of the culture and always had big shows on the weekends
I love the fact that when i watch the podcast here and then listen to the next episode on Spotify i can imagine you guys talk and james doing his impressions and nolan laughing at him and that just makes me laugh my as* off😂😂😂😂😂😂
Nolan hit that shit perfectly when he sung the low rider song lol!
I've been waiting for you guys to do a lowrider episode on one of your shows for years. I can't wait to see this.
I wore a purple zoot suit to prom. Thanks for reminding me of the day I finally became popular RIGHT BEFORE FINISHING HIGH SCHOOL!
I’m from San Jose and I didn’t know my city played such a part in low rider history!! sick
Thank you for this ✊🏽🇲🇽
I havent seen many lowriders and I live in the central coast, but I have worked on some with my dad and they are not only art pieces, but pieces of engineering, some people still use the old school airplane hydraulic setup
Finally a podcast about lowriders!
“Gow Job” sounds like the name of a morning radio show host.
Always wondered why the guys in my grandpas nursing home in th 90s had the high pants happening. They were all still trying to be pachucos. Badass.
They weren't trying homeboi,they WERE pachucos...imagine that, after all that time and they were still pachukiando haha
You guys sould talk more about mini Truckin
@Socal Drives do you see the host?
Wow..🤦🏻♂️
@Socal Drives Not at all mini trucks are little lowrider trucks that were popular in the Chicano culture in the late 80's through the early 2000's with dancing beds. The trucks are usually little Nissans, toyotas and s-10 chevy's
We need a Mexican style version of pop up up and down headlights but its pop up up and down car
Next episode all about lowered trucks and all about takuaches
Ahuevo cuh 😎
Alvv perroo 😎
My grandfather has a fleetline like the blue one that you showed,, but it's silver and it's got white wolves.
Nice, sounds beautiful
The paint jobs are art work , truly. Sad story my 3 best friends in the army are Victor a black gentleman from Valdosta,Ga. My bro Hector Ramirez from East LA. Then we had Anthony Russo an Italian from Bensonhurst and me a German American from the midwest. We were inseparable and they called us United Colors if Benaton. We lost Hector and I had never had felt such a horrible sense of loss and I had met his family on leave and the family virtually adopted me and I stayed with them for the funeral and I took extended leave and ended up helping his brothers finish Hectors Lincoln with suicide doors and they put this fabulous mural of my bro Hector on the hood, I cried like a baby!
it’s not just in La it’s in Texas and worldwide
Believe it , or not, the word "SLAB", came from Lowriders. In the 1980s.
Before the Acronym "S.L.A.B." , came later for Pimpcars. Which was already out there #nationwide, especially mainly from the East Coast.
"White" dude name Les Dunham, who is around and is currently operatin' at his shop "Dunham Coach" , is the inventor of the Pimpcars.
The ORIGINAL Super Fly film, of 1972 is proof of this.
Maybe ya'll should interview him.
#Slab, in just a word term ,meant a car that is low to the fukin' slab of the pavement. Hence "slab".
👍👍👍Thank you guys! Really enjoyed the podcast and even being in the lowrider world I learned a few things! Definitely could see the support from Donut Media of a art that were still trying to keep going! 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Incredible job on this one guys, one of my favorites so far!
This was such a solid episode, much love
I love this episode. No other podcast or show has made me look at pictures of the topic for more than 3 hours straight
Pretty cool stuff my brothers were low riders when I was a kid I’ll always have a soft spot for them
Keep the podcast please vibes please. I do long distance driving and I enjoy having your stories etc on in the background while I drive around Europe. This channel is a blessing and it's free to witness thank you donut for your efforts to the automotive industry
I forgot all about Homies! I never had any of em, but I DID get a little...character book? At a book fair in elementary school, it had like 50 or 60 of the characters with bios and all that 😂
This is awesome. thanks I have been waiting for this
I built a lowrider out of a 1977 LTD Silver Monarch. It was an Aussie spec car which I put air suspension under and 20 inch 150 spoke wires. It was slammed. Loved it.
Hell yeah! Thank you all for another great vid.
Love how cheech and chong bud life ad is below the comments on my feed, respect to the lowriders about now and all the previous lowriders who fought the system to make it work and the awesome thing it is today,
The cars are a proper personal expression of the owner
bout time hahaha been waiting for this!!!
It’s been a long time coming for this onw
Y’all should do Houston slab culture
Believe it , or not, the word "SLAB", came from Lowriders. In the 1980s.
Before the Acronym "S.L.A.B." , came later for Pimpcars. Which was already out there #nationwide, especially mainly from the East Coast.
"White" dude name Les Dunham, who is around and is currently operatin' at his shop "Dunham Coach" , is the inventor of the Pimpcars.
The ORIGINAL Super Fly film, of 1972 is proof of this.
Maybe ya'll should interview him.
#Slab, in just a word term ,meant a car that is low to the fukin' slab of the pavement. Hence "slab".
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@@jonothandex3446 thanks for the info man always good to learn!
Loved this video. Did my final essay for Latin American anthropology on Chicano culture and lowriding and this video helped a bunch. as always great work donut media
I really like your podcast, for work or when i'm traveling ! I also really like your touch on the show Nolan. You the best !
Boys, PLEASE do the 1983 WRC Lancia vs. Audi battle. That would be an insane podcast I'd love to hear.
Great video, guys. I really got a lot out of this one and for anyone who might be interested for some reason, here's why:
My dad was born in 1941. After the war ended, my grandparents moved the family from Detroit (where grandpa was a machinist for GM) to South El Monte, Ca in 1945, two years after the Zoot Suit Riots in L.A. In high school, dad built and drove a slammed, chopped 1955 Ford V8 pickup with side pipes, dodge Royal Lancer hub caps and sprayed root beer metallic with a cream white roof. It was built by him and his dad in their shop. He was right in the middle of the burgeoning lowrider scene. Interesting thing is that between his parent's heritage, dad was Scottish and Native American Indian. As one might imagine, almost everyone he associated with at that time were Mexican, and he always spoke highly of them even in his old age. As old school a man as dad was (I wasn't born until he was almost 50 years old) he harbored one ideal that was particularly ahead of its time- There was absolutely zero tolerance for racism around the guy, and he'd let anyone have it if they didn't mind that sensibility. My (much) older brothers have told me this went all the way back to when they were kids in the 1960's. My dad passed away last year and going through his things I found an old, framed picture of him at about 18 years old with that truck. It has become one of my favorite decorations.
Needed this for my Sunday shift :)
Love learning about old cars
Y'all are the best, thanks for this episode.
about to hit 100k, congratulation!
We may be slow but you can’t stop us we may be low but you can’t keep us down🔥
You guys did a great job ! Bravo Guys !!
You are at EXACTLY 100k subscribers. Congratulations!
CZcams red is 100% worth it man.
Really interesting episode, so glad I watched this one! Knowing the reason why they came to be makes them even cooler
That’s Chicano mine set, we always find a way
Listening to this as a drive my loader at work!
I think it’d be so cool if they did a past gas on keiichi tsuchiya
I love listening your podcasts during work in my work shop!
I build carbon fiber parts for living. Would be awesome to listen a past gas about carbon fiber.
Cheers guys!
Nice
I’ve been to California once, it was okay, I’ll go one more time to see all the big monuments since I’m going to school to be a history and I like the history of the monuments. I’ve grown up in countryside Midwest, and I just don’t fit in with Cali people, however I think the lowrider community, they all seem super chill, there cars are frickin awesome! And they love Chevys like me, ha!
Dude California is so huge, don’t think LA, SF, SJ, and Oakland are all that California is. We got plenty of country full of proud boys and truck bros too. No one hates California like people from other states.
@@nathanchildress5596 Oh I know it’s huge, I was there on a motorcycle trip and only saw the redwoods, went down the coast a little, and saw like one sign saying how far I was from San Fran. I’m definitely not hating one the people or culture of Cali, but it’s just not for me. I don’t really like ocean sea salty air, it’s to hot for me, I don’t like cities in general, even the ones in my state, it was just kinda “meh” for me, might change when I go again sometime, but not likely.
@@nathanchildress5596 for some reason people from others states think California is one huge city. It’s only the Democrats that give California a bad name , they are ghetto trash.
@@calikid2139 is it true that Northern California (not San Fran, Oakland or Silicon Valley) is pretty Conservative?
@@zachhoward9099 the true north is very conservative, the Central Valley also conservative, the true north of Los Angeles county is conservative as well, it’s just the major city’s that screw up the state and all the transplant liberals from other states
Great podcast 👏 you guys should do one on the f1 rivalry between Hunt and Lauda
i swear more people need to listen to you guys!! Because its awesome!!!
I’m a big fan of you guys but the “rat fink guy”?? Ed Roth did not steal Ron’s idea. Ron and him were friends, both building awesome kustoms at the same time. Roth was inspired by a different car entirely but did use Ron’s technique to make the top because it worked so well. Ed Roth was very important to the kustom car culture please do not write him off like that again. Kustomrama is a great website that documents these Kustoms and low riders a like, wonderful reference tool if you guys need it.
good to know!
I have a 1948 fleet line. It would be so cool if donut took it and made it the donut car.. like money pit classics
Early 2000s Street Truckin scene video
Yes
99.9 subs keep em coming Bois
Love the channel, you guys should do a video on the Nissan frontiers!
30:55
How did James miss the opportunity to sneak a "Nice." in there?
Congratulations on 100k subs! One of my favorite car movies is Gone in sixty seconds, w Nicholas Cage and Angelina Jolie. Next podcast idea topic: grand theft auto culture!
proud to be 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
It would be rad to see you guys cover an episode on Hurst and their contributions and collaborations to and with the automotive industry and beyond. Especially the special Hurst vehicles, like Hurst/Olds, Chrysler’s, Pontiac’s, and so on
Then you'd have to include how a race parts company invested the Hurst Rescue Tools 'jaws of life'
All gate, no weight over here! ❤ love y'all for this one!!!
Great episode. Am I the only one who at one point thought wait... so in Japan they have an ADM civic scene?
In Japan they love American car culture. Look what they do with old Dodge vans, they race them! Dodgi-ban life seems so fun
You should do an episode about the 1908 New York to Paris car race, it's the craziest car race ever.
Been staying up in midnight to waiting this awesome podcast. Love ya guys.
One of my favorite lowrider-theme song : Still D.R.E by Dr. Dre ft Snoop Dogg
gotta be Riders on the Storm ft. Snoop Dogg for me, gives me the lowrider feel even though the game (Need for Speed Underground 2) was thoroughly focused on JDM and similar tuner culture
@@xymaryai8283 , i like both song and the game tho. A bit of a lowrider vibe too.👍
It was my dream to own a Lowrider. I now own one 62 impala lowrider with hydraulics that I restored and built.
I live in south texas. You don’t see them often but their is a small group here if you are in the culture you’ll know. Older men drive them and most of them gave it up in the 90’s so they don’t take their nice cars out as much as they used to. Anyways when I’m driving and hitting the switch it’s always fun to see people lookin at me like they’ve never seen such a car before! Like it’s an alien spacecraft or something. It’s awesome. Dream come true or mine
Regarding the cars vs public transportation conversation, Adam Ruins Everything did a bit on his show explaining how the auto industry forced public transportation and pedestrians to make way for roads and highways (even jaywalking is involved...). Super interesting episode if you're into learning.
Hell yeah, the finest form of expression in vehicles, the amount of stuff the homies do to their ranflas is amazing, most of these dudes would be an asset to any design team in any of the big automotive giants , wether in the interior, the colour ,the body design, whatever,alot of the vatos havent got much of an education after high school, but they can do things that most car people would only dream about.
Also Love ur show and keep doing it.
Monster trucks next?
I’m surprised they didn’t talk about Eazy-Es boyz n da hood song it talks about a 64 impala
Why would they? B lacks have nothing to do with lowriders. Just cause they appropriate it doesn't mean it's theirs.
now we need an episode on Donks!
Please do a podcast on the Argentinian IKA Torino car and the 84 hour Nürburgring endurance race. And a podcast on Fangio. Lots of history there. Thanks
My first Past Gas episode, and on something very nostalgic to me, that I've lost touch with for a long while. A r e j u v e n a t i n g breath. Love you guys!
I would be interested to hear more about Shakotan culture for sure. The car mods, specifically and the other car subcultures in their periphery. From what I know, a lot of its burgeoning attitudes share similarities to the young chicanos' that mobilozed the lowrider scene!
Back in the 1930s in Sacramento Mexican Americans we're feeling the back of their parents cars with rocks to lower it to get to make a statement to the other people on downtown Sacramento this is where low-riding originally begin they did this on they did this on on Saturdays and Saturday night they took it out by Sunday morning they had to take all the Rocks back out so they can go to church this came out of the University of Berkeley back in the 1970s
Good podcast. Hit me up for Donut plaques!👍. I'd be happy to make some.
Bajito y suavesito = low and smooth btw
I don't how I got pulled over because my ride was lower but now I see these other cars with bin tires with low skirtings could pass me now days