EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — The United States Postal Service is issuing a new set of Forever postage stamps commemorating lowriders.
The new stamps, set to be released on Friday, feature a 1958 Chevrolet Impala, a 1964 Impala, a 1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, a 1946 Chevrolet Fleetline, and a 1963 Impala.
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The USPS said the new lowrider stamps celebrate a culture that is rooted in 1940s-era working-class Mexican American/Chicano communities throughout the American Southwest.
“Low and slow: that’s the lowrider,” the USPS says in a news release. “When in motion, these customized automobiles appear to glide over the road surface, only to suddenly levitate and bounce up and down.”…