Old School 1960s Lowriding
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- čas přidán 14. 01. 2011
- Rare film footage from 1968-1969 featuring Allen Duke and his 1964 Chevrolet Impala Super Sport. Shot on standard 8mm movie film using an old spring driven, fixed focus (no zoom or auto exposure) movie camera. "Old timey" effects are real, not added!
The location is Wilmington, California. Some of the scenes were shot on Avalon Blvd, then a big Sunday afternoon cruising strip in the South Bay area of Los Angeles. Notable landmarks are at 1:12 when Allen turns left from Avalon on to Fst. and the original Red & Blackie's burger stand is seen in the background. This was the southern end of the cruise route. At 1:25 the Chevy scrapes past the Union 76 station at Avalon and Denni St. This was about the northern end of the cruise and a good place to park as the station was closed Sundays. Or at least you could park there until you got rousted by "The Man", as frequently happened. Ahhh, good times!
The car had hydraulic lifts, two pumps, one for the front and the other for the rear. One 12 volt battery. No color pictures are available of the original two tone blue enamel repaint but Allen waxed it so often that it appeared to be a deep laquer. Later the car was painted a pearl purple with lace patterns on the hood and trunk. The painter was Carl Darling and pinstriping was added by Walt Prey. Soon after the Chevy was rear-ended. After repairs Allen had Richard Madrigal paint it candy red over pearl white with metalflake silver and cobwebing on the sides and top. At this time "Bellflower" pipes were added. The car rolled on Astro Supremes and had a custom white button tuck interior. This was state of the art lowriding in the late 1960s!
Today most people know that the word "lowrider" (and "low rider") can refer to either the car or the driver of the car. Almost forgotten is the fact that back in the day it was customary and considered cool for all passengers in a low rider to sit as low as possible in the seats, as seen in this video. Thus, a third meaning for the term "lowrider".
It would be nice if there were hundreds of more feet of film but, sadly, this is all there is. Only one reel of film was ever put through the hand-me-down camera. - Auta a dopravní prostředky
THE 60'S AND 70'S WERE GREAT TIMES. THE GOOD OL' DAYS ARE GONE AND WILL NEVER COME BACK AGAIN. BUT THE MEMORIES WILL LIVE ON FOREVER
1:58 it pains me to know i’ll never be as cool as this guy lmao
You probably never will be as cool as that Vato.
the old footage took this video to the next level tooo awesome!
The stance,the paint,the scene...I dig it all....great footage
Being from WILMAS, I recognized Avalon Blvd., East side of Banning High and Lakme. I remember that 53/54, had a surfboard on it once in awhile, thanks for sharing.
That is so fine , I'm going to cry. The 64 and the 54 , damn I love it.
WoW Astro supremes and bellflower pipes. Amazing. Old school i was there.
I love seeing old footage...of any kind.. I want to start documenting things I do too....Im glad this was put out for us to see...my brother pointed me to this vid..Im always over in that area because im a casual longshoreman....I like to old pictures and vids/film of people lowriding back in the days when it was just starting out...
My father grew up in L.A. during the late 30s to early 60s. He remembers that there were lowriders in the late 40s but with no hydraulics of course. Lowriders seemed to have become more popular in the early 60s but it was still very much underground. That's also when the first hydraulics were developed, around '61. I think that's when people began lowrider clubs and cruising Whittier Blvd. I imagine that anyone that had a lowrider during the 50s and up until the 90s was harassed by LEOs. I remember seeing lots of lowriders pulled over by Sheriff's during the early 80s.
Lol leoleos is what us SAMOANS call the police aka 1 tyme
So KILLER Howard. Brought tears to my eyes. Thanks for sharing!
thanks for uploading this video vato , this is a jewel in the lowrider history
Enjoyed the video and also the music. What a beautiful Impala SS.
Wow, this shit is over the word DOPE. I never knew they was low-riding like this in the 60s
homie.
Sure was no direspect lowriding don't start from all them gansta rap videos you see I'm for sure positive Mexican Americans aka chicanos from LA or southern CA first started off with this style that just shows you how far back they been here pushing that style
KIDEUCE YOU ARE THA MAN!!!! LOVE YOUR vids soon as i saw your channel i started to tell my brother and my friends they dad to see this and your other vids i love the old vids shot here in so cal..im from long beach and im into cars mainly old vw bugs but none the less im a car lover and i like the history lesson i get by watching vids like these
cool story man keep on rolling sumthings cant never die and this seis cuatro is a perfect example good job
This is the Real Deal. I was of the lowrider mentality in the 60's. I lived in Lomita and attended Narbonne High in Harbor City just off Western Ave near Lomita Blvd. I wasn't old enough to make enough money to own a car while I was in high school. All my older buddies had barges, 53 Chevy Belair and 50 Chevy Deluxe rides. Jimmy Reed was the first Blues singer to "crossover" to main stream radio. The video and your rides are tops on the cool factor. Congrats. I'm 62 years young!
Love this clip,a pick me up on a shite day..Thanks for sharing..
Glad you enjoyed my little video, those were some cool times and I can appreciate them now all the more. Wish I had shot more film but, unfortunatly, this is all there is. You can't go wrong documenting the present. Might seem unimportant now but down the road you find out that no one bothered so there's very little or nothing of the history recorded.
0:51 Avalon Blvd.. man I love the city Im from... WILMAS!
Thanks. Checked out your channel and enjoyed the history lessons. Especially the "hood visit". Good to know I can go take a tour from the saftey of my computer screen! lol.
Thanks for taking a look!
Wow cool video fantastic memories..Enjoyed ..
Old gangster track beat
Thanks for your comment. Good to know those times are still thought of by someone other than myself.
El Duke de Wilmas.
Kick ass brother!
Shuuh hell yeah baby! Layin' frame all over the boulevard Daddy'o...that's what it was all about.
Georgeous 64.
Firme ol Skool video loved it
firme MR . DUKE keep lowriding loko.......
Nice work, pretty chingon man.
Nice Old School Video !!! !
I was watching the video and then I saw him riding on Avalon Blvd passing Opp street headed towards Denni Street... and I'm like that looks a lot like Wilmington. Later as I continued watching the video it was confirmed by his plaque stating he was from Wilmington. The palm trees lining Avalon Boulevard gave it away. AKA WILMAS ✌😁
Footage in this video was stolen to be used in Donut Media's progression on lowrider in music video, heads up.
@kideuce cool man... i like your millitary vids too some times we need to look back to see where we are going... im 562vert ..i started my hood historian channel today...thanks for the good channel again!!
My grandfather had a lowrider 1903 model t . It had wooden cragar supremes.
My name is Howard Gribble. I had a '67 Impala (in 1967) and a '66 Riviera (1969) and lived in North Torrance. The "Essentials" came along in the late '60s but they were mostly younger than me and I don't think I knew any of them personally.
I guess Alan always has had a thing for clean rides. My son will talk about the day he got to drive the Dukeztr for the rest of his life.
I went to North High in the early '60s but the name doesn't ring a bell.
How beautiful😍😍
@WWFstunna13
Maybe your uncle's club was the "Essentials" from Torrance. I remember them from the late '60s.
way sick!!
Oh alright. Sorry about all the trouble. Nice to see people still care about the good O'l days. Wish I coulda been alive back then.
WWFstunna13 low riding books from Cinco de Mayo pictures
YESSSSS bout time i find something that even comes close to old school. Was raised in NORWALK crused Whiittier, Bellflower, Tweety, And that ya know. Have no idea where whilmington is. But heard of it. Cheech and Chong talked about it some. Cal worthington Dodge? Is that right?
oooooooooooooooohhhh, thatsa tasty cruise
Thanks for watching and the comments.
when lowriders were actually lowriding and not hopping
Coooool..
"Baby What You Want Me To Do?" and "Bright Lights, Big City". Both by Jimmy Reed.
@kideuce my uncle got his first tat at the Pike (x he tells me about the good ol times in the sixties with his 61 impala, which hes slowly restoring with me now. He was in a lowriding club i guess.... called Expeditions Torrance or something close to that. plus some of these pictures are in the lowrider book my uncle has...
Glad you dig it. Always interested in the off beat parts of history that don't usually get recorded, like the vids you have made. How about one on the LB Pike? Not the lame ass mall that's there now but the OG amusment park they tore down in the 1980s. Anyway, keep up the good work!
Bad ass pix an songs love the oldskhool shit
The owner told me that a couple of black guys from Compton did the front in 1967 and later he bought the pieces for the back and installed them himself. Recently posted more pics of this car to Flickr where I'm known as KID DEUCE.
True og
ooow bloody mary! it looked bad ass with the fade patterns on top! is this car lifted by bill hines?
nice
Wilmington, CA. "Wilmas"
along with a natural bend that was factory.
Ok those are maybe 2inch pipes and not belflowers at all anyway. Hard to tell in pic. Belflowers had couture to them to.
Dos anyone know the whereabouts of that beautiful '64? Is it still around today?
Is this impala still around? This is a bad ass video.
Yes its still around
Also proper placement for the Bellflower pipes are on the very edge of the rear quarter panel against the body level with the bottom of the panel on the outside of the body. . Not under the panel. Ruin the look there. But rest is like perfect.
the days when u could buy those cars for 100$ bucks and put a little to alot of money on it 🤔
Bitchin’!
what kind of car is that at 4:12-15
Did yu go to north high? Did you know anyone by the last name of LoPiccolo?
1954 Chevrolet.
El chuco52 ranfla carrucha ride my car since 03/14/1980 y que desde Moreno valley CA USA
Yes it was essentials Torrance my uncle still has the "Essentials Torrance" plaque. He was wondering what your name is? Yu can message me if you'd like.
1954 Chevrolet.