AN incredible lowrider, owned by a car enthusiast Sol Archer, grabs everyone’s attention for its unique colour patterns. The car was a father and son build – Sol Archer, from Ipswich, UK, inherited a Honda Civic EF from his dad Pete Blackhurst. Pete told FutureStudiosCars: “Sol’s role in the design was to build something that he could potentially drive - small, inexpensive. Sol’s colour-blind, so it was never about picking a colour switch, it was about making it pop, making it stand out - loads of different colours, loads of patterns, loads of lines." He added: “You could be driving it to the shops, into town, or you could be at a show like this. It always turns heads because of what it looks like. But then as soon as you start playing with the switches, I think it baffles people more than anything else.”
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00:00I 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.
00:23But this isn't your average lowrider, and Sol isn't your average owner.
00:30I'm Sol Archer and this is my lowrider Honda Civic EF.
00:37Sol's love of lowriders was inherited from his dad, Peter.
00:43The attraction of lowriders is just being different.
00:47To bounce around in a display, that's what the draw is for me anyway.
00:51This Honda was a father and son build.
00:54Sol's role in a design was build something that he could potentially drive, so 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.
01:12Today's event is the Ipswich Festival of Wheels.
01:16It'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.
01:35It 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.
01:42For Sol, being the only kid at the show with his own vehicle is pretty special.
01:48I don't know many other children with real cars, and I think I'm lucky.
01:54It's not just somebody's kid at a show.
01:57He feels like he's part of everybody else, apart from not being able to drive it.
02:02But everybody else is driving around in cars, and this is so-and-so's car, and that's so-and-so's car.
02:06Now he's got that car for himself.
02:09Half of them don't believe me.
02:11Well, it is hard to believe, isn't it, really?
02:13Yeah.
02:14But they'll believe it when they see you driving it, and that's the answer.
02:17Yeah.
02:20My dad will usually drive it up to a show, and we will take out the switchbox and start playing with it until it breaks.
02:28The basic ones are front-back, side-to-side, the seesaw.
02:37If you 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.
02:49You could always argue that Sol just gave me the opportunity because I wanted to build something for somebody else.
03:04But seeing him stood in front of a crowd of people with that switchbox and smashing it around,
03:10I get flashbacks of me being that kid who was new to lowriding, smashing a car about in front of all these old-timers.
03:18It's great.
03:22So Sol, what's it like owning a unique custom car six years before you're legally able to drive?
03:30Incredible.