It’s a rare sight, seeing a woman hit the switches for the hydraulics on her own lowrider. Which is why Suzie Feigel is used to the teasing and sarcasm that comes with being part of the male dominated sport of lowriding.

“They say, you’re daddy let you drive their car? That’s your man’s car, isn’t it? Where’s your man at? Where’s your man at?" says Feigel.

Just don’t expect Feigel, a wife and mother of four to stay silent. She's quick to respond.

“My man’s got his own car, want to see the pink slip?” she asks.

Which is why keeping her car clean is especially important for her, she knows she’ll face extra scrutiny as a woman in a male dominated sport. So she makes sure its spotless every time she gets behind the wheel.

She took me along for a ride in her 1975 Caprice Classic.

As we cruised through this neighborhood in El Cerritos we talked about some of the misconceptions people have about lowriding.

She says some of the biggest ones are that lowrider clubs are a gang,, or that people build their cars wirth drug money, something she says couldn't be farther from the truth.

She’s a member of the Los Angeles chapter of the Majestics Car Club, a club that started in Los Angeles and is now worldwide.

While the club boasts 250-active members in California, Feigel is one of only four active female members in the state. In 2018, she won more than a dozen trophies for her car.

But it was a battle getting to this point. As a child, she admired how her uncles would work on their lowriders.

"I wanted a car like them and it was a little hard for us, us females, me and my sister to actually get one. Because it wasn’t really accepted," says Feigel.

She says her uncles would respond with things like, 'what do you need a car like that for? You’re a girl.'

That changed once she met her husband, Bud Feigel and they started working on cars together.  Now it’s become a family affair.

She says her three daughters already talk about wanting to build their own lowriders.

While more and more women are becoming part of the lowriding scene, Feigel realizes for some men, it may take some getting used to seeing a woman as their competition.

While she enjoys the trophies and attention she gets for her car, for her its about the example she’s setting for her children, especially her three daughters.