By Montse Reyes – SFChronicle.com – Photo: Beto Mendoz.
Photo: A 1986 Buick Regal in Corcoran, Kings County, California.
Lowrider magazine has been a pillar in car and Chicano culture since a trio of San Jose State University students — Sonny Madrid, Larry Gonzalez and David Nunez — debuted the publication in 1977. (Nunez passed away in 2011, and Madrid in 2015.) The three came up with a few thousand dollars to fund the first issue, which they put together huddled over tables at a restaurant near the university. Their first issue, essentially a zine with black and white photos of cars and write-ups documenting the scenes in San Jose, Fresno and Gilroy, sold for $1.
