"It might seem strange to talk about another mag as part of an Influx edition, but there's no greater insight into the motoring world than a car sales magazine. At least it used to be, before the internet stole their "
Lowrider Magazine
Lowrider Magazine from the early eighties was a real hotchpotch of chicano-flavoured influence, full not only of slammed and jacked and hydraulically-altered mid sixties Detroit steel, but also a manifest voice of Latino street culture.
Editions like this make you realise that car culture can really be a central part of peoples’ lives – arbiters of their identities.
Somewhere along the line, for the October ’81 edition, it seemed to make sense to get all Halloween on the vibe, dress up in Adams family outfits and give it the best horror stance. This sort of sense of fun certainly seems to be missing from most car mags these days, eh?
Watch this space, homes…
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