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People who endure 25 years of marriage aren't the only ones who get to celebrate a silver anniversary.
On Sunday, April 1, the 25th Annual Centro Cultural Aztlan Lowrider Festival takes over Camargo Park for an all-day event. The festival will feature more than 300 participants competing to win a variety of prizes. The lowriderswill also feature plenty of variety, as cars, bikes and trucks will be on display. And while some will shine with mirror-like chrome, others will bounce. Some will be decked out with primo upholstery, while others will be decked out on the exterior with an assortment of painted murals. “There's everything,” said Malena Gonzalez-Cid, executive director for Centro Cultural Aztlan. “Original lowriders to muscle cars to Euro cars, street machines with suped-up engines — there are a lot of categories.” Thirty-three, to be precise, with cash prizes going to 11 of the winners. The Lowrider Festival has grown substantially since opening in 1982 with a small group of participants. Gonzalez-Cid, in her 19th year of involvement with the festival, said that the first event she remembers featured no more than 50 cars. “We wanted to slowly chip away at the negative stereotypes attached to lowriders,” she said. That strategy has yielded results. Over the past 25 years, the festival has morphed into a local institution of sorts, as Camargo Park will be filled with a plethora of lowrider cars, bikes and trucks that form what festival organizers call, “a rainbow of San Antonio cultura.” “We always want to provide a forum where (lowrider enthusiasts') expression can be seen, where it can be heard,” Gonzalez-Cid said. “We want to bring forth what is positive, the ingenuity that they contribute. With the cultural center, we're trying to maintain it, promote it and educate audiences.” WHAT YOUR VEHICLE SAYS ABOUT YOU Clint Hale | 210SA |
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