Dozens of these pint-size lowriders will be on full display Sunday, May 15, at the Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona.
The event is part of a larger exhibit at the fair celebrating all things lowrider: cars, bicycles, mural artists and, of course, these latest additions to the family: radio-controlled lowriders.Lowriders have been an important part of Los Angeles Chicano culture since they first started cruising the streets, sometime in the 1940s, according to historians.
For decades, model carmakers have endeavored to bring the Impalas, Monte Carlos and Caprices down to scale, and it didn’t take long for them to add motors and remote-controlled steering. But the holy grail was always figuring out how to do that thing — that beautiful thing — that lowriders do:Early successes involved the motors from cassette players and fishing line, but these rigs were short-lived. They had a fatal flaw. The fishing line would eventually snap.
De Vries set to work putting static model bodies on RC car chassis and using those cassette motors and fishing line to pull and make the car hop. He spent the next two decades perfecting the effect and making it look ever more realistic. By 2019, Redcat was ready. But as the company prepared to release a 1964 Chevrolet Impala model, its executives had no idea what to expect in terms of sales.
The company also has three new lowrider models in the works, with one, and maybe two, rolling out later this year. Lara helped organize the LA Fair event and said expects the hobby to grow even faster as more people are exposed to the RC models. South Gate resident Roberto Sanchez, 42, has never built full-size lowriders — but fell in love with the RC versions.
“You can get one of these RCs and work on it,” he added, “and you can get it ready to go in about a month or so.”
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