>>11518125SoCal was essentially founded as a utopia for car guys. So much of car culture comes from the area in and around Los Angeles. Hot rods, choppers, tuning in general, sports cars, sport bikes, dirt bikes, drag racing, low riders, off roading, desert racing, "touge" racing (before Japan named that style of racing, guys were racing souped up VWs and Corvettes in the canyon roads in LA), on and on.