WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - A new exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History focuses on the culture behind a unique type of car, lowriders.

On the museum’s third floor, two rooms hold an entire community, a group of people who tell their story through their cars.

The exhibit is called Corazón y Vida – Lowrider Culture.

“We wanted to really highlight Mexican American history, and we did that through car culture,” said Stephen Velasquez, the exhibit’s curator.

It focuses on the 80-year tradition of car clubs and members designing and showing off lowriders as a form of expression.

Corazón y Vida title translates to “heart and life”.

Following World War II, Americans embraced car culture as a symbol of the American Dream, but some Mexican American communities took it a ste

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