Lowriders in Fort Worth

The leisure hours of a software expert witness at trial are few. I did find time to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by walking out of the war room and into Fort Worth’s Sundance Square for a September 21st event “Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with a vibrant showcase of lowriders and culture.” Here are some photos.

If you thought that the hydraulics on an Airbus A380 were complex…

Medium format never dies…

Elizabeth Warren’s family made it down to the event:

It would be nice if gold wheels were a factory option for the Honda Odyssey:

If a minivan isn’t sufficiently stylish, even with gold wheels, here’s what I think is an early 1950s Chevrolet Suburban (it seems smaller than today’s behemoths):

I reminded the person carrying this bag that “The Latinx do it better” was the correct modern form:

Some elegance:

Ideas for next time we have the Honda Odyssey repainted:

ChatGPT says that the correct expression for the situation below is “Mejor tu hermana en un prostíbulo que tu hermano en una Honda.”

Sundance Square during the event:

Later that night…

There’s an It’s Sugar store half a block away for dancers who get tired. They feature some Tim Walz gummi candies:

And some Kamala Harris/Joe Biden/Whoever Is Running the Country Peace for Our Time gummi candies for sharing with Iranian, Lebanese, and Palestinian friends:

Circling back to the subject of lowriders, is there another car culture that has been created by an ethnic group? We could perhaps say that minivans are the apotheosis of white American culture. Now that a substantial percentage of Haiti’s former population lives here in the U.S. has a distinctive Haitian car culture developed? How about an Arab-American car culture in Dearborn, Michigan?

3 thoughts on “Lowriders in Fort Worth

  1. is there another car culture that has been created by an ethnic group? Yes Orientals have a car culture called JDM.
    Now that a substantial percentage of Haiti’s former population lives here in the U.S. has a distinctive Haitian car culture developed? No.
    How about an Arab-American car culture in Dearborn, Michigan? No.

  2. “is there another car culture that has been created by an ethnic group?”

    Deplorables created the American pick-up truck culture.

    “has a distinctive Haitian car culture developed?

    Thirty years ago, when I lived in Dade County, all the Haitians rode in the Jitney vans. And all the jitneys drivers were Haitian. It was a flat rate $1 ride back then. But I think the county ended up closing them down.

  3. black guys in Houston have slab culture
    asian American have rice rocket import tuning
    elderly jews in south florida kept the landau top alive for decades after manufactures stopped offering them as an option

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