THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Friday, July 21, 1995                  TAG: 9507210573
SECTION: AUTO WEEKLY              PAGE: H1   EDITION: FINAL 
SOURCE: BY MARY SCULLY
                                             LENGTH: Short :   32 lines

LOW-RIDING IS THIS CLUB'S STYLE `HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?' WILL BE THE QUESTION AT SHOW AND SHINE GATHERING SUNDAY IN NORFOLK.

[This story is not available electronically. For complete text, please see microfilm.] ILLUSTRATION: Color photos by L. TODD SPENCER

Art Lavender spent two years customizing his candy tangerine Honda

Civic. He removed the door handles and corrugated the side panels,

added a sliding ragtop and installed hydraulics to lower the car to

the ground with the push of a button.

This crushed velvet interior is in the Volkswagen GTI owned by

Jeremy Estes, 18.

Matt Bogar, right, admires David Barlow's 1990 Isuzu pickup that

features a walk-through. Both the cab and the bed of the pickup have

been cut to create a passage.

by CNB