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 ...

The 1970s were a weird time, especially for the American auto industry. Upstarts like Toyota and Honda began stealing sales from the Big Three, and concerns over smog and air quality led to the ...

Chad has been a muscle car and classic truck lover since he could walk. The classic vehicles from the '60s and '70s are the best in his eyes, but he is more than willing to give the new technology a ...

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. Follow us: Bending the rules often yields ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We all have a favorite Mopar that we'd like to own or restore one day, but finding that certain vehicle at a reasonable price can often be more difficult than it sounds. This is even truer if the ...

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 ...

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 ...