Latinas get attention in male-led lowrider clubs

*This ranks high on our list of cool. Good piece by our friend Rebecca Aguilar. VL

By Rebecca Aguilar, USA Today

Wolf whistles, horn honks and sometimes even catcalls greet this beautiful, classy, pampered piece of re-done chrome when she rolls into a parking lot. Driven by owner Marisa Zapien, the sleek black-and-gold 1948 Chevy Fleetline turns heads at every corner.

On this Sunday afternoon, in the parking lot of a Dallas restaurant, Zapien guides her lowriding classic into a parking space and readies for the show. The event celebrates the art, culture and tradition of tricked-out vintage cars with chassis lowered almost to the ground, a world that entices Hispanic men and women who turn old cars into works of art with chrome features, hydraulic systems, fancy paint jobs and elaborate interiors.

Zapien, 40, gets out of her car and strolls around it, a look of pride on her face. She revels in the fact that she is a female lowrider who works on her own car, a rarity in a world dominated by men and pin-up girls. “If I get dirty, I don’t mind it,” she says. “I like to work on it myself. Then I know how things work.”

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[Photo by Rebecca Aguilar, USA Today]

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