Maria Leon sits in the driver seat of a light gold 1989 Lincoln Town Car that she gifted to her husband two years ago. Growing up in Raleigh, Salvador Leon had mentioned to Maria how he wanted to fix up a car of his own to start lowriding.
Lowriding is a car culture, significant within Mexican-American culture, that involves customizing cars with hydraulics in order to move them up and down. To spectators, this might seem intriguing, but to Maria this is a way of life. Maria is a member of the Lowyalty Car Club, Alamance County’s lowriding car club.
Maria and Salvador have four kids together. When it comes to the daily task of taking their kids to and from school, the only answer Maria gets is the Lincoln. Maria laughs just thinking about her son’s reaction…