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Drifting On Memories
by Raul Garcia
A lowrider culture podcast. Recorded historical accounts of the Lowrider culture, by its predecessors. Interviews and conversations with the men and women that paved the way for decades of Chican@ culture. The cars, the clubs, the music, fashion and activism of the early days of the Lowrider movement. The Lowrider culture is known around the world but rarely is the story told by those whom were there.
Episodes
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Danny Soto
The Danny Soto story is not as common as it may have been 20-30 years ago. These days it’s only a few people that can recall the stories of kids growing up in the East Los Angeles area, in the height of the Lowrider culture. Being the youngest of five brothers, Danny was exposed to lowriders and...
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Ruben ‘BUGGS’ Ochoa
Buggs might just be ‘The Most Interesting Man in Lowriding’. An amazing talented painter, a promoter for one of the earliest and successful lowrider shows and might have been the main character of a movie. There’s so much to this one man. He’s got stories after stories. It’s no wonder people want...
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Memo Ortega - ‘Memo Chop’
Memo Chop is an all around car and bike builder. Believe it or not, he’s been cruising lowriders and chopper motorcycles since the 50’s and 60’s. His famous 37’ Chevy became an icon when good friend Teen Angel recreated it on a cover with La Vírgen de Guadalupe. Memo becomes emotional reminiscing...
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Trevelen Rabanal - The Crazy Spirtual Side of Choppers & Lowriders
The interview with Trevelen Rabanal might not be what you think it is. The award winning chopper builder talks more about his days building memorable lowriders, and the madness of the 90’s lowrider scene. Along the way, Trevelen makes the connection with Hawaiian surf culture, lowriders and...
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Pachuco Manny Alcaraz
What’s a Zoot Suiter?! Pachuco Manny Alcaraz draped in his zoot suit cruising his 1933 Chevy Eagle, down the same Los Angeles streets where the Zoot Suit Riots took place in 1943. The Zoot Suit era and style is important to Manny. He co-founded the Los Angeles, Zoot Suit Riots cruise. A lowrider...
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Nick Eratrada - Orpheus Car Club
Nick’s is the story of lowrider redemption. A long time lowrider, he’s seen the Lowrider Club Wars of the early 70’s and he’s ready to tell us less then half of it. Lol! Regardless of what he’s been a part of, he is now dedicated to unify all car clubs and extend his hospitality to all lowriders....
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Johnathan Hernandez - Santa Ana City Coincilman
Santa Ana Lowriders stand up! Your city councilman, Johnathan Hernandez is representing to the fullest. Sharing his personal stories of growing up in the varrio and learning of lowrider family culture. He say, “Our culture should not be criminalized, our culture should be embraced for what it is...
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California Assemblywoman- Luz Rivas of the 39th District - San Fernando Valley
California Assemblywoman, Luz Rivas to join the Drifting on Memories podcast! She has offered to explain more about the ACR 176 bill to legalize lowrider cruising! Who better to explain the bill, but the woman that wrote it. Luz has strong connections to her community, family and culture. She is…
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Lorraine Quiñones - ACR 176 Cruising is Not A Crime
Will we live to see the day when cruising in a Lowrider is completely legal in California? Well, it may not be so far out of reach. Let me introduce to you the California Legislation Bill ACR176. This measure would allow for local elected officals and law enforcement to work with Lowriders to...
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Jesse Felix- Heartbreaker Movie
Jesse is a long, ok very long time lowrider. It’s one thing to be a lifelong lowrider but it’s another to have your car features in 3 of the most well known lowrider movies. That’s right, Jesse was the owner of the famous T-bird features in Heartbreaker- Streets of Fire. But wait, there’s more....
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Lowride Worldwide & Drifting on Memories - Prt. 1
John Ulloa of Lowride Worldwide and Raul Garcia of Drifting on Memories, share about their own experiences and upbringings, and get into some major discussions. Lowrider culture, social media, and the future of it all. What it means for them to share stories on a podcast. Recorded live on…
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Sandy Avila - Lady Lowrider
Let’s hear it for the ladies. The Lady Lowriders! Sandy is a true rider and she’ll tell you all about it. She holds no punches, explaining what it’s like for her and other woman in lowriding. Her upbringing and her community played a big role in how she started lowriding. Now she is a part of...
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Greenspan’s - The Last Original Clothing Store
Evan Greenspan is a part of a four generations family run store, but not just any store, the G’est of them all. The Greenspan’s store is known around the world for it’s selections of specialized clothing. In other words, gangster styles. This store has provided clothes for movies like Boulevard...
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Yoya J&R Upholstery
Jose Ruiz best known as ‘Yoya’ of J&R Upholstery, in East LA, has quite the reputation. That’s what happens when you’ve become a master of upholstery and a part of at least three different East Side Story Records, of oldies. His car, his son and even he has been on the covers. Yoya really is a…
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Angela Romero - Hello Stranger
Angela Romero is a straight up homegirl that is creating a movement with ‘kickin it on a Sunday afternoon’ in mind. The Hello Stranger location is a spot especially created for lowriders. I felt it the moment I stepped in the space, it is going to be something special for our community. The bar…
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Charlie Chacon - Family of Car Builders
The Chacon family name is synonymous with classic car building and lowriding in Los Angeles. Coming out of the Westside but cruising all cities. Charlie knew at a very young age what it’s gonna take to represent the family name. He jumped on his first Impala at 16 and never looked back. Now,...
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Luis Rodriguez- Always Running
No one can tell it like Luis Rodriguez can tell it. The gang life, the lowrider scene and the participation and later arrest at the Chicano Moratorium of 1970 in East Los Angeles. His books include; Always Running, The Republic of East L.A., It Calls You Back, and Gang Days in L.A. A poetic...
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Harvey ‘Xavier’ Reyes
Xavier ‘Harvey’ Reyes of Carnales Unidos Car Club has been labeled a role model, founder and life long lowrider. What makes a life long lowrider? Perseverance and longevity in the world of lowriding. Harveys got that! Bakersfield, California might be a small town to many but the cruising scene is...
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Haunted Lowrider stories w/ Armando Flores
On this haunted edition of Drifting on Memories, Raul and Armando revisit some of the spookiest stories in lowriding. Cursed cars, car trailer fails and haunted murals. A collection of real life nightmare builds and the show cars now rotting away in yards. Beware, these stories will make you cringe!
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Johnny ‘Roadrunner’ Romo - New Life CC
Johnny has just about seen (lived) it all. The man grew-up a block away from the world famous Whittier Bl. arches. His neighbors were the Valadez family of The Imperials car club. So we can all imagine what type of inspiration Johnny received from Jesse and his brothers. Not that he needed…
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Marcos Gaitan- Pyschotic Pineapple
Marcos might be the true epitome of Chicano. An artist, car builder, muralist and old school punk rocker. I mean, the guy started a lowrider bike club at age 12, in his hometown. Him and his friends would take a bus to find possibly the only lowrider car show in California. When talking about…
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Lowrider Today
Lowrider Today is what happens when you get three guys that have made car building, photography, writing and editing for magazines a life long career. Saul Vargas, Marco Patino and Mike Harrington introduce to us what the bases of Lowrider Today is, and why it’s a perfect time for it. Yes…
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George Gaytan- Class of 75’
After almost 50 years of lowriding your gonna experience some real ups and downs. Which make for great stories. George Gaytan has more knowledge about lowriding then the average car enthusiast, that’s for sure! One of my favorite stories is the making of the movie Cobra, later renamed Boulevard...
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Tomas Requejo- The Lowrider Lawyer
Tomas was exposed to lowriders at an early age by the influences of his brothers. Cruising Milpas St. Santa Barbara and building traditional lowriders of the 70s and early 80s is how he remembers it. Tomas eventually came to a fork in the road of his young adult life. Keep building and cruising...
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Women Lowriders Only- Tina Blankenship Early or Super Naturals CC.
Tina might just be the true definition of Woman Lowriders Only. Growing up in South Los Angeles, Tina fell in love with lowriders at a very young age and decided to one day own a true lowrider. Since the early days of South Central LA cruising, Tina has built an admirable number of lowriders. As...
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Women Lowriders Only - Guadalupe Rosales
Meet Guadalupe Rosales, the mujer behind Veteranas and Rucas. We know you know Veteranas and Rucas. We know you know Map Pointz. We also know you lived those same experiences the pictures captured. Guadalupe breaks down what it all means to her and how it’s evolved to a social movement to…
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‘Lowrider Women Only’ series- Stefs Pinstripes
Stefanie Lizet a painter, pinstriper coming to establish herself in the custom paint world. Dedicating herself to the craft of “laying down pinstripes”. Already a student of the legendary painter, Danny D. Stef understands the amount of sacrifice it takes to paint and later take care of unique...
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‘Lowrider Women Only’ - Adriana ‘ONNI’ Avila
Adriana Avila aka ‘ONNI ARTÉ’ , is paving the way for lowrider fine art! Her art adds the mixtures of cars, powerful woman, and neighborhood scenes. ONNI takes us on down the road with momeories of growing up in Wilmington Ca. (WILMAS) and the start of her love for art. Painting actual woman from...
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‘Lowrider Women Only’ series- Doctora Denise Sandoval
Denise ‘Doctora’ Sandoval is so well known in the lowrider community but that’s in no way the extent of it. She’s a real pioneer in bringing lowrider art and culture to the world of prestigious museums. Museums around the country and internationally. She curated all three Lowrider exhibits at the...
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The Los Angeles Lowrider Community
A sit down meeting with Cristina Romero and Spanky, member’s of the Los Angeles Lowrider Community. Spanky is also the President of Just Memories Car Club. He explains to me the real reasons of how the coalition initially started to keep registered sex offenders and pediphiles out of the lowrider...
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Mike Miller- Photography Chronicles
Mike Miller has some of the most iconic lowrider photos you may not even know about. Although, I know for a fact you’ve seen his work, but have you heard the stories behind some of the most important pictures in rap culture? What was it like for Mike to get those famous shots of Tupac and Easy-E?...
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Abel Perez- Premier Car Club
Abel Perez represents his old neighborhood of Sun Valley Ca. to the fullest. He also a represents his club, Premier with a ton of pride. The man behind so many iconic cars like Summer Madness ‘65 Impala SS, Fantasia ‘65 Impala SS, and soon the Gigolette ‘76 Impala. Trust me when I say, he’s not...
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El Sid- Artist, Cruiser and Super Cool Dude
El Sid is the type of name you can say in a crowd, and at least a few people will reply of how cool he is, and what a great artist he is. It’s true. Not only is he an old school punker cholo from Huntington Park to Downey, but his art and lowrider knowledge exceeds his modesty. You can catch Sid...
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Jesse ‘Pinche Kid’ Jaramillo
I’m back at the El Clasico tattoo shop, to interview Jesse Jaramillo. The artist behind the DOM podcast design. Jesse is the type of artist you’ll meet and immediately regain your faith in Chicano art. In this episode he talks about restoring his classic truck from high school, to the next level....
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Frosty AKA Paul Hertz - Chain of Strength
You wouldn’t believe it. It’s almost unbelievable. The art of building and restoring rare antique cars, is very similar to playing raw aggressive hardcore/punk music. Told you, you wouldn’t believe me. Well, lucky for us, Frosty aka- Paul Hertz of the band Chain of Strength (HARDCORE/PUNK) ties…
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IMPERIALS CC Raul Hoyo ‘Technical Ecstasy’ and Ruben Muro ‘Dressed in Tribal’
Raul Hoyo and Ruben Muro of Imperials car club take us down the long road of lowrider history. Talking about the cars, the music and the cruising. The famous Imperials cars like Gypse Rose, Technical Ecstasy and Blue Dream. Yea, of course I asked the question; “what ever happened to the Boulevard...
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David ‘El Abuelo’ Aguilar - Ilegals CC
Sitting in Chicano Park with David El Abuelo Aguilar. Cruising the streets of San Diego and Tijuana since the late 60s and 70s. Hear about his crazy stories of building and sometimes wrecking cars. This might be as custom car builder interviewing as it get, but then again, it is Da le gas!
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Cruising Is Not A Crime! Interview with Johnny Torres- Blvd. Nights
Johnny Torres of La Puete Ca. Chevy bombs, oldies lowrider dj and cruise night organizing. Listen to all the ups and downs with pulling people together for demands to cruise the streets without police/city officials harassment. He’s been harassed by both police and other lowriders for what he…
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Lowrider Sunday’s - La Moni Loca & Lil Smiley prt. 1
The Lowrider Sunday’s radio show is a women founded and women operated, oldies radio show, from the barrios of San Diego. The show is in its sixth year and going strong! Listeners from around the world tune in every Sunday. The DJs keeping these sweet oldies turning is ‘Lil Smiley’ and…
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Antonio Mejia- Talks Chicano/Native American art, cars, tattoos and what it all means for him.
Imagine getting a cultural tattoo from a dedicated student of the culture with personal life experiences. That’s exactly what Antonio Mejia has been doing for his clients. Teaching while tattooing. Explaining the importance energies and meanings that each of his tattoos carry. These are not the...
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Dr. Steve Alvarez-Mott of the GROUPE CAR CLUB
Dr. Steve Alvarez Mott of GROUPE CC, has been one of those stories in lowriding that is so few and far between. He gets honest about the few lowrider car clubs that were around in the early 70s. The history this man has seen and experienced is extraordinary. Then again, that’s exactly how he’s…
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Danny D - the paint master opens up about the mini-truck era,
Danny Galvez aka Danny D, takes us down the road of early 90’s lowriding. Mini-trucks and pushing the envelope of lowrider paint jobs. Danny co-founded the Nu-Minis mini-truck club and later busted out with one of the more well known 66 Impalas, in the history of 66 Impalas. Panty Raid competed…
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Mike Lopez- lowriding since 1972. In the same car club for 42 years. World renowned car builder.
*Warning explicit language, or just intoxicated lowriders in their element* It’s very few people that can match the number of things that Mike Lopez has accomplished for himself. Lifestyle Car Club member for 42 years. Builder of one of the most well known traditional lowrider car in the world…
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Howard Gribble- lowrider and custom car legend. Long time photographer and car builder.
Howard Gribble started his lowrider and custom car ventures from as early as 1965. More than likely, if it had anything to do with lowrider or the custom car scene in California, he’s seen it and probably took photos of it. Today he is one of the most well know car enthusiasts in all of Southern...
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Kristin Bedford- Female lowrider photography. Cruise Night book a collection of community photos
Kristin Bedford allows us into her photo studio in downtown Los Angeles. What an experience to talk with Kristin about real lowrider people. Not the type you see on television and movies. She talks about her upcoming book, Cruise Night. A collection of photos from the past five years to recent…
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Actor, Poet and great friend of the show; Richard Cabral. Coco on the Mayans MC television series.
Richard Cabral of the Mayans MC television series, takes this episode through his life of gangs and prison to success and spirituality. His love for Chicano lowrider style motorcycles comes from the streets of East Los Angeles and his own family history. A lot is covered in this episode!
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Episode 10 - Sal Preciado of El Clasico tatto shop, Echo Park
This is Echo Park ✨Long time tattoo artist, Sal Preciado and his 1971 Monte Carlo outside El Clasico Tattoo shop. Episode X takes you to a time of having to earn the right to tattoo in one of the oldest barrio of Los Angeles. The times have changed, said Sal.
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Ted Wells - Professionals
What can be said about Theodor 'Ted' Wells, that hasn't already been documented in countless magazine articles and honorary awards? Well, for starters; did you know he's an inductee to the Lowrider Magazine Hall of Fame, or that he prefers burgers over fish sandwiches. You may have heard of his...
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Armando Flores - Masterpieces association of lowrider scale models and The Lifestyle Car Club PT. 2
The part 2 of 2. A candid interview with Armando Flores, master lowrider model builder and 'old school' SFV lowrider. He explains the love for creating his art and how it's taken him places he never thought possible. Museums, exhibitions and magazine covers. What's next for Armando? Well…
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Armando Flores - Masterpieces association of lowrider scale models and The Lifestyle Car Club
Does life imitate art, or does art imitate life? Well, Armando Flores walks both worlds. A renowned lowrider model (artist) and life size car builder, he gets to display his vision of the styles and colors he remembers from cruising down the streets of San Fernando Valley, in the 1970's and…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A lowrider culture podcast. Recorded historical accounts of the Lowrider culture, by its predecessors. Interviews and conversations with the men and women that paved the way for decades of Chican@ culture. The cars, the clubs, the music, fashion and activism of the early days of the Lowrider movement. The Lowrider culture is known around the world but rarely is the story told by those whom were there.
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Raul Garcia
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