Originally posted by TATTOO-76@Feb 16 2011, 11:25 AM~19884039
He has been interviewed on tape and went into detail about the car. There are also several publications that are dated that prove his car was at a car show with hydraulics before aguirre had his vette. the new owner of the car has everything.
Do you know what other publications it was in?
Also, I wonder if Technical Lowrider "crowned" Aguirre as the first builder with hydraulics since the car disappeared in the early 60s? and didn't show up again until they interviewed him in the early 80s. I'll have to look that up.
Either way, it would be great to see both cars restored, they're both an important part of history. I don't think either builder thought they were setting a precedent for what we have today.
As far as the French "inventing" hydraulics or whatever, they obviously didn't have custom applications in mind when they came up with it. But I wonder why American builders didn't check this out back then.
http://www.citroenet.org.uk/miscellaneous/...draulics-1.html
I read in LRM that Ron has Spanish, as in European, roots and does not identify himself with Latino/Chicano Culture.
Mr. Aragon, I hope you draw the positives out of this discussion and put something together informative.