Long retro, lowriders always look very nice and cool, and now Larson engineering’s age old Flip-up roadster gets some custom souping up to make it relevant for this day and time. The shiny automobile’s scissor door’s stay. And all you people who thought Lamborghini pioneered scissor doors, it is time to do some serious rethinking. It was in Michigan where Larson put scissor door’s onto the ‘53 roadster. That is fifty five years ago. Radical engineering is an understatement.
Moving forward, to 2008, we have this low slung roadster getting quite a punch with a ‘compact’ V8 which gets all the trick bits to make the two seat roadster one hell of a puller off the traffic lights. And i’m still wondering, since when did V8’s become compact? And the Lowrider, which managed to sit so low by throwing the conventional-at that time, solid axle out of the window and embracing the swinging axle gets an all new double wishbone and coilover set up.
This is because the swinging axle gave the lowrider a very hairy, dangerous cornering experience. The lowrider also has oodles of blinding chrome to really look like lightning when it scorches up the asphalt. Goes like lightning gets an all new meaning in the ‘53 lowrider. Jumping straight into the Driver seat, along with the wind in your hair, you also will probably have some scorched legs courtesy the exhaust from the “compact” V8 that sit’s right next to the humongous scoops, next to footwell. But, for all of you who think a hot footwell is a small sacrifice for looking very cool, the lowrider is definitely for you.
Source: Jalopnik
