2026 Lowriders Forever Stamps — Custom Car Culture, First-Class Postage

Low and slow. A lowrider seems to glide just above the pavement, then rises and drops on its suspension in a move no factory car can make. This 2026 issue celebrates a culture that grew out of working-class Mexican American and Chicano communities in the Southwest during the 1940s — a tradition of mechanically and artistically customized cars now collected by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and copied by lowrider clubs abroad.

Why photographs, not illustrations

Art Director Antonio Alcalá wanted the pane to show a spread of styles, model years and paint colors, and concluded that photography was the only honest way to do it. Illustration, he reasoned, would foreground an artist's imagination rather than the labor that goes into building each car.

The five cars

Philip Gordon photographed Let the Good Times Roll/Soy Como Soy, a blue 1946 Chevrolet Fleetline, and Pocket Change, a green 1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. Humberto "Beto" Mendoza photographed Eight Figures, a blue 1958 Chevrolet Impala; The Golden Rose, an orange 1964 Chevrolet Impala; and El Rey, a red 1963 Chevrolet Impala.

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