Manky Monkey Motors

Erm, not so special actually.
Lunatics, both junior & senior & I braved nose to tail traffic on the M25/A40 this lunchtime to do this one, with Tazet sat further back in the same queue, having had to work late. Finally reached the Ace to find the carpark desolutely empty. A few bikes & one very lonely 60s Mustang. Not a "Lowrider" in sight. What a disappointment. I guess there probably aren't that many ground scrapers in this country -we haven't got the roads for 'em, but one or two would've been nice.
Eventually the blue Merc arrived. Very nice -& a regular at Valley Gas Speeed Shop, my local hotrod emporium.

Engine was as tidy as the body. Fuel injection's been swapped for a bank of Webers, but the owner says the linkages need some work cos it revs of it's own accord sometimes. Nice machine though.

Nice little Airstream style trailer turned out to be a mobile tattooist's parlour.
Didn't look smooth enough to be the genuine article so maybe a modern home made copy?

Nice old Rickman fairinged Trumpet's an Ace regular.
The black one behind it's a brand new, unregistered Bonnie. Seems to be a common thing at the cafe for local bike shops to display new bikes. last time I was there, there was a line up of new BMWs.

Eventually a second Mustang & a nice old Falcon arrived. The Falcon appeared to be race prepped with full roll cage, uprated brakes & suspension etc, but may have just been for modern road use. None of the cars there are what I'd define as Lowriders but at least they made the effort to show.

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Dodgy looking bike gang.

The Lowrider meet was advertised as a pre Chelsea Cruise get-together, so when we left we threaded our way across town to Battersea to hunt for rods & customs. According to the NSRA forum several were heading that way, but the only one we saw was this old model A in the traffic at Gypsy Corner.

For some truly gorgeous real lowriders, check this link to the Jalopy Journal forum, sent in by Brock.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=184977

God I'm off to the states with a shopping list :o ::) Hayley wants a lowrider with a BIG smiley grill ::)

They're not lowriders, they're kustoms! These are lowriders....

Don't look very low to me!
I refuse to be drawn into the definition argument!

Good. ;) as I reckon the lines between all these types of cars are pretty blurred! If you take a '64 impala and flame it, on 5 spokes and on airbags its a kustom, same car but no flames, wire wheels and some murals and its a lowrider! Its madness! ???

Precisely!

I'd happily take this home.  Whatever it is.

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Nice, but I'm not sure about those truck grilles. They remind me of the masks the guys who stand behind the batsmen at baseball games wear.
How about this? Buick? Looks like something from a 30s inspired Batman cartoon.
Nice pickup in the background of the first shot.