00:02I don't know many other children with real cars. It's incredible.
00:15Ipswich in the UK. Not the first location that springs to mind when you think of lowriders.
00:25But this isn't your average lowrider and Sol isn't your average owner.
00:33I'm Sol Archer and this is my lowrider Honda Civic EF.
00:39Sol's love of lowriders was inherited from his dad, Peter.
00:44The attraction of lowriders is just being different.
00:48To bounce around in a display, that's what the draw is for me anyway.
00:51And this Honda was a father and son build.
00:55Sol's role in a design was build something that he could potentially drive.
01:00So small, inexpensive.
01:02Sol's colour blind, so it was never about picking a colour as such.
01:06It was about making it pop, making it stand out.
01:09And it certainly does that.
01:13Today's event is the Ipswich Festival of Wheels.
01:17It's an all-encompassing car show.
01:30You could be driving it to the shops, into town, or you could be at a show like this.
01:36It always turns heads because of what it looks like.
01:38As soon as you start playing with the switches, I think it baffles people more than anything else.
01:43For Sol, being the only kid at the show with his own vehicle is pretty special.
01:49I don't know many other children with real cars and I think I'm lucky.
01:55It's not just somebody's kid at a show.
01:58He feels like he's part of everybody else.
02:01Apart from not being able to drive it.
02:03But everybody else is driving around in cars and this is so-and-so's car and that's so-and-so's
02:07car.
02:07Now he's got that car for himself.
02:10Half of them don't believe me.
02:12Well it is hard to believe isn't it really.
02:14Yeah.
02:15But they'll believe it when they see you driving it and that's the answer.
02:21My dad will usually drive it up to a show and we will take out the switch box and start
02:27playing with it until it breaks.
02:30The basic ones are front-back, side-to-side, the seesaw.
02:38You turn them off, the car's totally rigid, no shocks, no springs, so it's good for fast moves.
02:44And if you want to drive it, turn those accumulators on and it's like an inline shock absorber.
02:59You could always argue that Sol just gave me the opportunity because I wanted to build something for somebody else.
03:05But seeing him stood in front of a crowd of people with that switch box and smashing it around,
03:11I get flashbacks of me being that kid who was new to low-riding, smashing a car about in front
03:17of all these old-timers.
03:19It's great.
03:22So Sol, what's it like owning a unique custom car six years before you're legally able to drive?
03:31Incredible.
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