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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Actively reporting, writing, and editing on automotive news and since 2021, Dave has brought his acerbic wit and love of European car culture to brands such as HotCars, CarBuzz,and TopSpeed.

Another week means another entry into our series featuring the sweet cars I found for sale online. To compile this list, I search as much of Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist as I can for ...

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) ...

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 ...

Jim Fannin Sr. has always considered the Li'l Red Express Truck -- a sporty pickup with chrome exhaust pipes rising behind the cab and oak paneling along the bed -- to be the ultimate ride. Fannin ...

David Otto thought Li’l Red Express Truck was pretty cool when Dodge featured it in the late ‘70s, but he couldn’t afford to buy one then. Some 40 years later, Otto still thought the trucks were ...