by HoTWire
12. June 2008 03:34
We love the Brazilian car scene because we love two things, obscure cars and lowness. The Brazilian car scene has both in spades!
Let’s start with this little YouTube clip
The car is taking part in a competition to see how low it is. Of course we want to find more stuff, so we can trawl through the associated and related films. The most useful thing that jumps out of all of them is the word "rebaixados", which as far as I can work out means lowered.
Essentially what we often refer to as Brazilian look is wrapped up by rebaixados. Essentially cars slammed as low as you can possibly get them, from what we can work out the sills need to be as near to the floor as possible. Wheels of choice seem to be fairly normal steels running hub caps/trim or modern style alloys. How many of these cars are running air ride and how many are hard slam is still a question we don't have an answer to, and until we find more build up information it is going to be a mystery. Anyone from South America able to help us out?
In the mean time drop Rebaixados into
google and we're off. A few pages of links to look through and a handy few pages of images. By looking through the websites we find more car and more links.
To get you started though:
Watch out for the music on this first one (hit the "See More Photos" link on the left hand side);
http://www.flogao.com.br/rebaixados
For a cross section of the Brazilian scene;
http://www.autocustom.com.br/fotos/
Let’s hope we can all find some more information about this fascinating side of our hobby.
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