IMPERIAL - Imperial Valley is gearing up for a celebration of classic cars, funk, and oldies as the East Side Story Car Show ...

Denise Sandoval, who has taught at Cal State Northridge since 2002, is perhaps the premier scholar on lowrider culture and also an exemplar of what an academic should be.

Lowrider owners, designers and community members gathered in Glendale to celebrate the artstyle on wheels pioneered by the Chicano community.

Lawmakers also envision a future lowrider museum in the car-crazed city Española ... knowing how to work on cars, how to show them,” she said. “It does sort of became a family thing.” ...

The end result is an intimate and unstaged exploration of Mexican-American lowrider car culture in LA, offering a new perspective on an often-overlooked American art form.