Every Sunday evening, 20-year-old Mercedes Mata would cruise her sparkly pink 1984 Chevy Monte Carlo down Jefferson Boulevard in Oak Cliff and through Downtown Dallas. Her customized lowrider, which ...

It’s not a hobby. It’s a lifestyle – a family legacy. Mercedes Mata is one of the youngest lowriders in Dallas, and now the youngest one to be showcased at the first lowrider exhibition in the Bullock ...

It’s a breezy Sunday evening in January, and Oak Cliff’s Jefferson Boulevard, a hive for Latino culture, is gleaming with a collection of metallic, pinstriped lowriders. The cars cruise down the block ...

Mark Mata has always loved lowriders — being around them, driving them, building them. “I was born into it, basically,” said the Oak Cliff resident. When he was younger, Mata liked to drive around the ...

Austin's Bullock Texas State History Museum is opening a new exhibit on lowrider culture that will highlight the Mexican American origins of the vehicular art form. The show, called Carros y Cultura, ...

In this KERA Art Docs, we see why Mark Mata revived the Dallas Low Riders Club following the death Mark Mata revived the Dallas Low Riders Club in 2003 after the murder of his older brother in 1987.