Gone but never forgotten

Aside from the upswing of cruising, 2020 was a bittersweet year for lowriding. In that single year, we lost a good handful of influential figures from the world of lowriding. Among those lost were  Eddie “Spooky” Mijangos, Kenneth “Doc” Steward, Albert “Gordo” Dominguez, and Howard Gordon just to name a few.   

But if you stop and think about it, we lost so much more than their physical presence. We lost their voice. We lost the countless stories and experiences that made them who they were, and those stories are all a part of lowrider history.  

It’s also a large part of why we started this site. We wanted to document the stories that have never been heard and give them a place to live. In he end, it is our belief that you can’t understand the future if you don’t know your past, and that’s exactly why we started Lowrider Syndicate. For now, this might be a place to chronicle what the lowrider community has done, but 10 years from now these moments will be a part of history to help educate the next generation of lowriders who will carry the torch.