The 1978 Dodge Lil’ Red Express arrived at a moment when performance was supposed to be dead, yet it managed to outrun ...

American pickups of the Disco Era were a shadow of their former selves, that’s why Dodge pulled out all the stops to build the world’s first Muscle Truck. Bending the rules often yields impressive ...

The high-performance truck is back — but it isn't new. One of the first of the breed dates back to the height of the Disco era, 1978, when high-performance cars had all but ceased to exist because of ...

When the Dodge Lil' Red Express Truck (LRE) hit the market in spring 1978, it was not just another trim package; it was a bold, chrome-laden protest against the performance-breaking environmental ...

It looks we'll soon be seeing a modern interpretation of the 1978-1979 Dodge Lil' Red Express truck. The original truck was part of Dodge Trucks's "adult toy" promotion that included a few other ...

Only malaise-era kids will remember the Dodge Li'l Red Express pickup truck was the quickest performance car that America could muster in the post-oil-crisis economy. Just listen to these blistering ...

Seventies muscle car fever did not stop at Chargers and Camaros. It spilled into short-bed pickups with big-block rumble and chrome pipes tall enough to roast eyebrows at idle. The Dodge Lil Red ...

How many of Ma Mopar's legendary muscle cars weren't actually cars? There were over 7,000 built in 1978-'79 that weren't--and their existence is thanks to a couple of loopholes in Federal clean-air ...

The stacks on today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe D150 are functional and those aren't even the most notable features of the Lil' Red Express package. Let's see if this restored pickup has a price that ...

The 1970s saw the bottom drop out of the muscle car craze, and high-performance became a dirty word. Despite this, real work still had to be done in America, and trucks were there to do it. Among them ...

Anyone interested in old-school American sheet metal knows—or at least, should know—about the Dodge Li’l Red Express. It was a hot-rod truck offered from the factory with a 360-cubic-inch V8 and twin ...

In the late ’70s, the fuel crunch was in full swing, and the performance car industry was at arguably its lowest point in history. Smog-laden big-block gas engines could barely crank out 200 hp, and ...