It's the weekend in south Oklahoma City.

It's a beautiful Sunday afternoon.

And you know what that means?

Everyone coming together, everyone cruising together.

The buddies, the friends, the homies just hanging out.

This isn't a hobby.

It's self-expression, a way of life.

I think it's important because it just shows people's creativity.

You'll meet some of the friendliest people in L.A. right?

Welcome to low riding south Oklahoma City style.

When I get behind the steering wheel, I especially want to have my family with me.

It's a feeling that a lot of people can't really describe.

It's awesome.

And my son has a bike.

He has two bikes.

My wife has a car.

She has a Lincoln and a stroller as well.

We are a lowrider family.

I would say.

This is our culture.

We live, we breathe, we wake up and we go to sleep thinking about the scene, the community.

I didn't really I don't really know anything about it until he brought me in and was like, yeah, let's start a bike for our son.

And, you know, it's real cheap.

And that was probably the biggest lie I ever heard.

That was my way of pulling her into the scene.

You know, we're we're grateful.

And I'm definitely grateful for this lifestyle that that he he showed myself and our son and the friendships and the family that came along with it.

All right.

You've got a show coming up here.

A lot of people focus on the negative part of that.

You know, the negative part of low riding, you know, gang banging and stuff like that.

And it's it's not really like that.

You'd be surprised how many families are just like us.

There's a lot of, you know, kind hearted people out there in the lowrider scene.

Okay.

So what else are we going.

To be doing to this car besides this mural?

I want to get all.

engraved.

that's My kind of jewelry is engraving.

we're not all we're not all thugs, we're not all gangsters.

But, you know, at the same time, a lot of us do have a history, but, you know, a lot of us have changed our history.

You know, so I, for example, as one so family is a big thing where riding has kept me out just positive.

This is something that can turn into a positive.

Yes.

Once you spend any time at all around lowriders, you quickly see.

No.

Two cars are alike.

And that is precisely the point.

Photographers and videographers regularly document lowrider get togethers like this.

This one right here stands out to me really well.

You've got the gold It's really shiny, and you've got the red that complements to every little detail.

And everything's done.

To.

Each side.

So if you get the right photo and you get the right angle, you can see just all the flake in here.

That's a really cool photo to get.

Seeing the details of lowriders is part of the reason to go to a gathering like this and to meet the car clubs.

There are many.

These guys here.

I've been rolling with them since, I must say, over some people over 15, 20 years.

You know, since I started that, they've been with me, you know, it's like a family, a part of a family.

We're all bluecollar guys.

And concrete workers brick layers, furniture, movers, and we put everything that we have to do coming out on that Sunday and hit the switch on somebody doing three.. Clownin'!

Hitting the switches is lowrider lingo for using the cars specially installed hydraulic system to make the cars dance.

And why is that such a thing?

If you have stress, the stress goes there.

it really does.

Until something.

Breaks down.

Now you get more stress.

You start jumping real high and stuff like that.

You're going to start breaking things.

So what I do is this is called a full wrap.

I'm boxing in the whole entire frame, all four corners with three sixteenth steel.

I Havea CNC plasma table.Cut out my metal.

And from there, clamp them onto the frame and weld them on to reinforce them.

I'm a real hands on person.

You know, I get to weld, get to design things, and it's going for a car.

So it just kind of goes hand in hand for me.

And I love what I do.

Welding, to me, is an art.

Illegal toys.

We're just a small local car club.

My dad joined in 98, and ever since then, I've been in the car club.

So it's it's, you know, it's part of my life, really.

Me as a young lad, we had the opportunity to be get a feature in the Lowrider magazine.

So this car is in it.

When I was little, I had a lowrider trike with hydraulics, so that was pretty cool.

Have my car tattooed on me.

Classic Route 66.

So it's definitely more than a hobby to some people.

It's kind of a way of life.

It's a family.

This is a backyard boogie, which is basically a pop up event with friends, family, music, and very good tacos.

Backyard Boogie is something new that my girl was all like, Hey, you know what?

We need to have a backyard.

I said, Let's do it.

it definitely brings a different flavor to the city.

lowriding is much more than just vehicles.

It's family.

It's community.

It's a unity.

It's culture.

It's so much more.

And I can go on and on.

You know what I mean?

(MUSIC) This has been a male dominated industry, and throughout the years, I've seen more and more women coming out with their beautiful rides, coming out with their canvas in their vehicles and their representation.

And it's been amazing.

It's really interesting.

I see my car as my canvas.

My car is a representation of unity, of empowerment.

Whenever somebody or a young girl sees my car down the street, I would want her to feel empowered, to be like, I want that for Patty.

Part of the power comes from the paint created at the local car shop icon Max's.

I went to Max and I told him, Max, I want to keep it pink, but I want, you know, a different tone of paint.

They mixed a lot of pinks together and they came out with this beautiful pink pearl.

That's the custom colors.

So I'm the only one that has it.

Every October, Patti's vintage rollers car club stages a cruise to raise money for Santa Fe High School.

South.

My heart has always been with giving back.

That's where my heart's been.

That's been my love language for since I was young.

I would define a lowrider start off from back in the day, how you were raised, you know, in the culture and lowriders, basically a car that sits low and you go out there, you enjoy it.

When I started to make a lowrider, I put rocks and concrete in the trunk to lower it, you know, and that was it.

Nobody sees inside, you know.

Richard has been in the lowrider scene since growing up back in California, and he knows exactly what he wants to see from the scene in Oklahoma City.

To me, it makes me feel okay.

I mean, what I'm more after is children.

Teach them the right way, not the bad way.

Because the way that I'm describing it to you, it's should be the normal way.

And that's the reason why I try to spread the positive.

So that way the kids can continue.