A retired longshoreman in L.A., Ruelas has been customizing cars for over 65 years, and this 1954 “Mr. Lowrider” Chevrolet ...

Lowriders, those 1940s, ’50s, ... customizer found hydraulics from a B-52 “Stratofortress” bomber and installed them in his now famous 1957 Corvette, “X-Sonic“; ...

the man known as the patron saint of the Corvette. And while the details surrounding it can easily fill up a book, it's not common to place the C2 into the same sentence with "lowrider".

Editor's Note: One of the hottest performance trends in lowrider circles is to pull out the OE engine and put a fuel-injected Corvette LT1 engine under the hood.

John knew that he wanted a Lowrider that had some horsepower, so he told V-Max to swap out the original engine with an '06 Chevy Corvette LS2 engine. After the engine compartment was painted ...

For the 11 th straight year, The Wall Street Journal has profiled car and motorcycle lovers in the weekly My Ride column. This year’s stories have featured everything from a 1925 Rolls-Royce ...