High-performance pickup trucks are quite common nowadays, but this wasn't the case a few decades ago. The jury is still out on which automaker built the first-ever souped-up hauler, but the Dodge Li'l ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the 1970s, Americans still looked to long-hood coupes and low sports cars when they talked about speed. Names like Corvette , Trans Am, and Camaro carried the glory from the muscle era into a ...

The Dodge Li’l Red Express Truck arrived at a strange moment in American performance history, when emissions rules had choked most muscle cars and carmakers were scrambling for loopholes. Dodge ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Will joined the TopSpeed team over two and a half years ago, bringing his lifelong automotive passion, writing experience, and editorial expertise along with him. Whether classic or modern, American ...

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 ...