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Letter to the editor

Dear Editor,
First of all, I would like to thank MÁS magazine for the article published on Aug. 4 titled “Lowrider Legacy” about my family and our love for lowriders.

The point is to make a comment about the article I mentioned above and explain to others our passion for this hobby.

The love for lowriders is not only about having a nice car to show or to be cruising on the streets all day. The love for lowriders involves a big community. Low-riding is most common among Hispanic communities. Low-riding is about being proud of your culture and society. Many people think that all those guys cruising on the streets don’t have anything better to do or that they are gang members. Such criterion from my point of view is wrong.

The members of a car club are honest working people, many of them are well-educated and professionals who are proud of their culture, that care about their families and their community.

Many people may not know that lowriders cars are very expensive. These cars run from the low $4,00 up to $100,000 or even more. The owners of these cars invest a fortune in their lowriders. But it is not only the money they put into it, people have to take into consideration the time, dedication and patience that it takes to build a lowrider car.

As a wife of one of the members of a local car club (Impalas of Bakersfield), I appreciate and share with my husband the love for lowriders, and we hope to pass this hobby on from generation to generation.

I would like all those people with negative criteria to take the chance to go one day to a car show, so they can open their eyes to a new world and understand that the lowrider family is delivering a form of constructive entertainment for the whole family.

Diana Sandoval Juarez
Bakersfield