Started by Mexican-American serviceman modifying their cars in the 1940s, lowrider culture finds a new home in Toronto
Lowrider culture and history goes back far beyond the West Coast gangster rap image most associate it with today. The roots date to the postwar years of the 1940s when returning Mexican-American serviceman began modifying their cars alongside the growing hot rod culture of white America.
Jeff Forgione owns Switches and Thangs in the west end of Toronto, where he builds cars that cost upwards of a quarter million dollars. “It’s a passion for cars, art and community and we’re paying homage to the culture appropriately,” says Mr. Forgione. “I mean, I can’t imagine those guys in LA back in the day would ever imagine that this would ever have reached Japan. I think they’d be proud, as they should be.”
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