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 1978 Dodge Lil’ Red Express arrived at a moment when performance was supposed to be dead, yet it managed to outrun the era’s most vaunted sports cars and muscle machines. Instead of quietly ...

While not as iconic as the Ford F-Series from the era, the third-generation Dodge D Series is famous for quite a few things. For starters, it remained in production for a whopping 22 years (1971-1993) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...