All My Friends Know They Were At the Cruisin' For A Cure For ALS Show

Before starting to read this blog it's important to play this song: Low Rider.

The 1950s saw a massive car culture boom, especially in Southern California where it became popular to radically customize your car. One cool concept was to cut the springs and lower the entire vehicle. It got to the point that a law was passed, Section 24008 of the California Vehicle Code. This made it illegal for a car to have any part of the car sit lower than the bottom of the wheel rims. So to beat the law, in 1959, an ingenious mechanic named Ron Aguirre came upon the idea to put hydraulics on his car. That way, when he was pulled over for driving too low, he could simply flip some switches and raise the car and avoid a ticket. When others saw what he had done they flocked to copy his solution. Hydraulics in cars brought about the low rider and the rest is automotive history. 

A group of low riders all showed up at this year's Cruisin' For A Cure For ALS show in Lawrenceburg. Despite being tucked away on a side lot, they managed to draw a large group of people who admired, not only the cars, but the unique positions they could attain. All my friends know a low rider. And they saw some in Lawrenceburg.