00:00 I don't know many other children with real cars. It's incredible.
00:07 Ipswich in the UK. Not the first location that springs to mind when you think of low
00:23 riders. But this isn't your average low rider and Sol isn't your average owner.
00:30 I'm Sol Archer and this is my low rider Honda Civic EF.
00:39 Sol's love of low riders was inherited from his dad, Peter.
00:44 The attraction of low riders is just being different. To bounce around in a display,
00:49 that's what the draw is for me anyway.
00:51 And this Honda was a father and son build.
00:55 Sol's role in the design was build something that he could potentially drive, so small
01:00 and inexpensive. Sol's colour blind so it was never about picking a colour as such,
01:06 it was about making it pop, making it stand out.
01:09 And it certainly does that.
01:13 Today's event is the Ipswich Festival of Wheels.
01:17 It's an all encompassing car show.
01:24 You can be driving it to the shops, into town or you can be at a show like this.
01:35 It always turns heads because of what it looks like. As soon as you start playing with the
01:39 switches I think it baffles people more than anything else.
01:43 For Sol, being the only kid at the show with his own vehicle is pretty special.
01:48 I don't know many other children with real cars and I think I'm lucky.
01:55 It's not just somebody's kid at a show, it feels like he's part of everybody else, apart
02:01 from not being able to drive it. But everybody else is driving around in cars and this is
02:05 so and so's car and that's so and so's car, now he's got that car for himself.
02:09 Half of them don't believe me. Well it is hard to believe isn't it really?
02:15 But they'll believe it when they see you driving it, that's the answer.
02:21 My dad will usually drive it up to a show and we will take out the switch box and start
02:27 playing with it until it breaks.
02:29 We basically want our front back, side to side, the seat saw.
02:37 You turn them off, the car is totally rigid, no shocks, no springs, so it's good for fast
02:44 moves. Then if you want to drive it, turn those accumulators
02:47 on and it's like an inline shock absorber.
02:54 You could always argue that Sol just gave me the opportunity because I wanted to build
03:03 something for somebody else. But seeing him stood in front of a crowd of
03:08 people with that switch box and smashing it around, I get flashbacks of me being that
03:13 kid who was new to low riding, smashing a car about in front of all these old timers,
03:20 it's great.
03:23 So Sol, what's it like owning a unique custom car, six years before you're legally able
03:29 to drive?
03:31 Incredible.
03:31 (whooshing)
03:34 (music fades)
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