- USPS’s 2026 stamps include five classic American lowriders.
- Featured cars span from a 1946 Fleetline to an ’87 Cutlass.
- Other stamps celebrate Ali, independence, and key figures.
Emails are fast, convenient, cost-effective and oh, so dull. Reminding us of that fact is news from the United States Postal Service about its auto-themed stamp collection for 2026, which celebrates Chicano culture through a series of classic modified American cars.
Five lowriders are immortalized in next year’s stamp haul, reflecting customized US-built machines from the 1940s to the 1980s. The cars are a blue 1946 Chevrolet Fleetline named Let the Good Times Roll; a blue 1958 Chevrolet Impala named Eight Figures; a red 1963 Impala named El Rey; an orange 1964 Impala named the Golden Rose; and a green 1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme named Pocket Change.
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Though USPS doesn’t give any information about them, a Google search shows they’re all real cars that are well known in the lowrider scene. At least one, the ’63 Impala ‘El Rey’, appeared in the Petersen Museum’s Best in Low showcase, which ran between 2024 and 2025, closing in May of this year.
According to an old story on Motor Trend, the ’46 Fleetline has a 4-inch (100 mm) roof chop, and a 1968 Camaro 327 cu-in V8, while the ’87 Cutlass rides on tiny Zenith wires, gold and chrome suspension, and has a 350 crate motor up front.
Three of the cars are depicted in slammed mode, while one of the Impalas is nose-high and the Olds is in full-lift configuration, showing off its gold guts.
The 2026 stamp collection also celebrates Route 66 – “The Mother Road” – through a series of images from photographer David Schwartz. The 16 pictures each focus on a different section of the iconic road as it winds through eight states on its way from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Other historical and cultural icons and moments that helped shape America and are shrunk to stamp-size for 2026 include Bruce Lee; Muhammad Ali; Phillis Wheatley, the first author of African descent in the American Colonies to publish a book; the American bison; figures of the American Revolution, and 250 years of American Independence.
