9 TOP WEIRD AMERICAN PICKUP TRUCKS

DODGE LI'L RED EXPRESS

- WORDS: GREG POTTS

Often referred to as the grandaddy of performance pickup trucks, the Li’l Red Express wasn’t the first truck to get a massive V8, but its 225bhp 5.9-litre powerplant and twin exhaust stacks made it stand out in a country where muscle cars were hamstrung by the Clean Air Act.

DODGE DAKOTA SPORT CONVERTIBLE

In the late 1980s, the Dakota pickup wasn’t selling. To drum up interest it shipped Dakota Sports to the American Sunroof Corporation where they had their tin tops replaced with a canvas roof and a single roll hoop. It erm... didn’t sell well at all.

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