Car culture in Houston has always been popular. From the candy paint and the elbow wire wheels to the bass in your speakers -- slabs are sure to turn heads in the city. The "Slab Talk" project pays ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- They sit high and are a sight to behold with a high-gloss candy paint and elbows sticking out on each side. As others have put it, these cars are slow, loud and bangin'.

Texas culture can get boiled down to barbecue and country music, but some things are unique to a city like Houston. One of them? Swangas, which confused some drivers in Austin recently. First, a ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Houston's slab car culture took to the streets in the early 80s as a form of personal expression on wheels. Slab is short for slow, loud, and bangin'. The perfect description for ...

Slabs — custom cars characterized by features like extended wire spokes known as swangas, vibrant and almost-metallic candy paint exteriors and bass-heavy sound systems — originated in Houston’s Black ...

The rolling fortresses of steel known as slabs — vintage American automotive iron taken to decorative extremes — have become a uniquely Houston phenomenon. Chronicle reporter Julian Gill recently went ...

High gas prices have hit Americans' pockets everywhere, but slabs — and their owners — have held on in Houston. On any given Sunday in Houston's historic MacGregor Park, a Saturday night at Carrington ...