There was no decade like the 1950s in suburban America in which automotive first became a true medium of personal expression. Since that time, the cars that we drive have become social symbols in ways in which even their owners could never truly understand.

As far as that “medium of personal expression,” that part of America’s love affair with the automobile has extended itself into the new Millennium. Evidence of a new, automotive art form is seen in our feature video. It’s one that we like to call the art of “Donk.”

For those of you who like your cars on a set of big ass rims just as much as you like them running massive motors, then have we got the sled for you. This Donk ’73 Caprice convertible was seen this last December, pulling out of a parking lot in Orangeburg, South Carolina. The perfect blend of motored out muscle and canvas paint, this convertible is running a 572 big-block that’s loping like it should be in a Chevelle.

However, the motor resides instead under the mile long hood of this clean but vicious sled, and it’s beastly enough even to make the huge Caprice quickly light the rear tires. The tricked out convertible represents a strange hybrid that we’ve never really seen in the craft: one between lowriders and muscle cars.

It would be an unlikely pairing in the eyes of many of the more conservative rodders, but in the case of this South Carolina Caprice, some hot rod/lowrider fusions were just meant to be.