Brandon with Lowrider

Brandon-Baylock, 9, poses in front of a lowrider at the annual Blessing of the Lowriders event May 7, 2017 in southwest Detroit. Rather, it was born in the barrios of another car capital, Los Angeles, where starting as early as the 1930s, Chicanos began customizing their cars and loading the trunks with sandbags to give them a lowered effect, according to a 2002 essay in Lowrider Magazine.