hot rod

More recently, Couture has become involved with hot rod racing.

“We had a good race car and what keeps me alive is driving this hot rod and all these fans,” Force said.

Although hot rods were made popular in the 1970s because of movies such as “American Graffiti” and muscle cars became a staple on Southern California streets, lowriders were designed to be low and slow.

He started with small, thickly painted works barely 8 inches square, framed in wood as exquisitely polished as the finish on his old hot rods.

Anderson recorded Chandler pushing her walker and jokingly said, “Slow down hot rod.”