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Pickups

Salute Sgt. Rock: Rare ’41 Dodge WWII pickup restored as a rock-climbing tribute to the military

Yesterday we shared a gallery of our favorite vintage pickups from this year’s SEMA show. Exempt from that gallery was perhaps our favorite vintage truck from this year’s show, the imposing Sgt. Rock. Not only does this truck have a hell of a look to it, it’s got the history to match. As builder Stacey […]

November 18, 2016

Pickups

At odds over defective emissions system, FCA and Cummins now fighting Ram owners as defendants in class action suit

Both Cummins and FCA have announced that they will vigorously fight a class action lawsuit filed this week alleging that both companies backed an effort to conceal emissions violations on diesel-equipped Ram pickups. The news follows FCA’s decision last month to sue Cummins for $60 million over a selective catalyst reduction (SCR) system that both the U.S. […]

November 18, 2016

Pickups

PHOTOS > The coolest vintage and scrappy beater pickups from SEMA 2016

One thing you see a lot of every year at SEMA is vintage pickups given a second lease on life thanks to some heavy modifications from the thousands of talented builders that attend the show. And in the last couple of years we’ve seen a trend toward restoring the insides of some of these trucks […]

November 17, 2016

Pickups

Shockzilla, an 8-in. lifted F-250 with exhaust stacks, shows how beautiful a Super Duty Raptor could be

Though Ford used this year’s SEMA show to unveil the F-150 Raptor that it will race at the Baja 1000, we were a bit more taken by another off-road engineered pickup at the automaker’s booth. Meet Shockzilla, maybe our closest approximation yet as to what a Super Duty version of the Raptor might look like. Created by Fabtech […]

November 16, 2016

Pickups

Chevy beefs up storage-focused Silverado High Desert for SEMA with performance extras, striking bronze accents

Earlier this year, Chevrolet introduced a package for its Silverado LT, LTZ and High Country trim levels aimed at those who appreciate the SUV-like versatility of the discontinued Avalanche, but weren’t exactly fans of that truck’s…distinctive look. The Silverado High Desert offers a flexible storage system with dual side storage bins and a three-piece tonneau […]

November 16, 2016

Pickups

Ford Super Duty wins its first Motor Trend ‘Truck of the Year’ award

Motor Trend has named the 2017 Ford Super Duty as its latest “Truck of the Year.” Though it is the fifth time an F-Series pickup has won the Motor Trend award, it is the first time the award has gone to the Super Duty lineup. “We judge the contenders based on six categories—from design to […]

November 15, 2016

Pickups

The Kymera is the chopped, Cummins-powered Chevy Colorado of our dreams

When it comes to aftermarket parts companies displaying a project truck at the SEMA show, that truck tends to be designed to show off a given company’s products. Prominent bumper maker Fab Fours, however, brought a truck with no bumpers at all to this year’s show. Instead of showing off the company’s wares, the beastly Kymera was all […]

November 14, 2016

Pickups

1950 Dodge D100 gets a HEMI rebirth thanks to Mopar’s new crate engine kits

A 1950 Dodge D100 pickup got a new lease on life thanks to Mopar’s new 392 HEMI engine kit. The truck was parked at Mopar’s performance exhibit at the SEMA show in Las Vegas last week as the head of FCA Parts and Service, Pietro Gorlier, told reporters nearby that his company would now begin selling 345 and […]

November 11, 2016

Pickups

This 600+ hp 1950 Ford F-6 is a chopped dump truck straight out of Mad Max

The distressed paint look is taking the custom truck world by storm as evidenced at the SEMA show this year, and many of the builders are pushing that formula into a kind of Mad Max alternative universe. And why not? Why labor over fancy paint jobs, painstaking pinstripes and factory fresh interiors when you can […]

November 10, 2016

Pickups

Behold the 1966 Stout 1900: Toyota’s first pickup model had a whopping 85 HP

In our coverage of Toyota’s super-fast Land Speed Cruiser SUV unveiled at last week’s SEMA show in Las Vegas, we mentioned that the Japanese automaker’s booth was full of first generation models from each of their product lineups. And just a few feet away from the 2,000-horsepower Land Speed Cruiser, was a pickup with about […]

November 10, 2016

Pickups

Ice Ram Cometh: Tracked, tactical Ram from ‘Fast 8’ turns heads at SEMA

Earlier this year, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson shared a photo on his Instagram page of a truck that appeared to be half-Ram, half shark. The truck was tracked, topped with a serious camper and a coated in a khaki shade and armor that give it the look of an arctic military truck. This is the Ice […]

November 9, 2016

Pickups

Toughen up your Tacoma for an off-road beating with ARB’s new range of accessories

If you’ve ever wanted to take your Toyota Tacoma off road, just about everything you’d need was unveiled in a new series of accessories by ARB at the SEMA show last week. To see the full range of accessories and read more about them, look through the captioned photos above. The accessories are mandrel bent, to insure even […]

November 9, 2016