Jaime Trevino of San Leandro, California, is no stranger to the lowrider scene and, in fact, he helps run it! Jaime, who's about 30 years old, got into lowrider bicycles and lowrider model car building at about 16. Ever since, he has developed a vast number of
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Okay! For the past three weeks, we have been showing you Revell's new Chevy SSR model kit "transformed" from a 1/25 scale replica of the real car into a Revell-ation Lowrider." Saturday morning at 5:30 am we were up and spraying a clear coat on the top for th
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Okay! I know I have to give big apologies for not updating you guys on Friday before the show. But, it couldn't be helped, so let's move on and get to the show. We have done as much as possible to the truck and tonight we will get a few things cleaned up. Satu
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Okay as promised, here is the new version of the Chevy SSR from Revell. After we took another look at the truck, we decided to lay down a coat of Testors transparent blue #1257 over Testors metallic gold #1244 as a base coat. As the paint job was being laid a
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From Box to Competition Part 1Revell's SSR is out of the box.
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Model car pioneer Jay Holt of Custom Builders Model Car Club in Los Angeles, California, has once again made his presence known within the Lowrider Group offices with his latest creation, "Orange Bang '76," an explosion of details on wheels! Giving a call to L
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The world of model building may be just a hobby to some, but to guys like Steven Hernandez of Carson, California, it's almost his entire life. Well, maybe not his entire life. You see, Steven is a family man, too, with a young wife named Yvonne and a newborn d
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Anthony Arebalo of Baldwin Park, California, usually spends his time laying ink or piercing people at The Tattoo Shop in the nearby city of La Puente, but Tony also loves to lay into the little plastic rides. One of Tony's favorites is this '49 Mercury with a
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Avo Galebyan of North Hollywood, California, has been around cars all of his life. "I love cars," the 20-year-old admits. "Ever since I can remember, I've been around them." Though Avo, a leasing agent by trade, grew up liking sports and other guy-related hobb
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Another talented Tovar has arrived. This time it's young Daniel Tovar, the 15-year-old son of Paul and DeeGee Tovar from Cypress, California, and nephew of the famous Tovar family of lowriders. Daniel has been building models for about three years, and has wai
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A few years ago, James Bonsell from Huntington Park, California, picked up a '50 Chevy pickup and started to build one of his best models yet. Chopping off the roof and shorting it as well, James added a custom front end with '37 Ford headlights. James also mo
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Finding top modelers does not seem to be too much of a problem these days. Lots of lowrider modeling pros are seen online and they always send us jpeg pictures to our email or by regular mail when all else fails. And sometimes old friends just dial us up. Fran
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Another day passes by and Henry Espinoza of Huntington Park, California, is planning another bomb attack on the competition. Henry's weapons are candy paint-covered, fuzzy fur-filled plastic bombs. Henry has been building models for a few years now and has com
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