Slab car and Selfie Drive-by shot.

Car blog Jalopnik recently wrote an explainer on SLABs (Slow, Loud and Bangin' vehicles) and swangas (chariot-like wire hubcaps), which are confirmed to be legal.

On any street or freeway in Houston, you will see shiny cars with rims protruding far out from their tires. And on some of these cars, the top and back of the trunks
have cut rims with “poke” that are beautifully displayed, but proudly nonfunctional and serves as eye candy representing spare tires. These cars are called Slabs.

A Slab is not a Lowrider, it’s not a classic car, nor is it an art car. It is part of something much larger with a style all its own. It has its own culture – the Slab Culture,
which was born in Houston back in the ’80s and has quickly spread through the nation.