Pickup type cars, like the Ranchero.

http://www.oldcarbrochures.com/ terrific source

So we are all familiar with the Ranchero, and El Camino... but ever hear of Dodge making one? I just learned that GMC had one. 1983 Caballero Laredo. Why? El Camino didn't have a nice enough sound to it anymore? A Diablo? You have to believe how desperate they were with this one. An air dam for pete's sake, and no power to make this fast enough to need one. Click on the images for the full size, and read how pathetic the ad was.

I dig the look of a Hudson truck, sorta odd, but imagine what it'd look like with HUGE back tires at a drag strip!

What greedy pig has to recycle the GTX and the Super Bee onto a truck?

here, there, and everywhere around are potential cool cars waiting to be liberated from their dull, unused existences

Just using up space behind a service station
Gated into the end of a driveway, likely been there for dozens of years, and more to go before rescue

Pontiac Executive, a midrange car below the Bonneville trim package, but better than the Catalina... was a 4 year run, with either a 400, 428, or 455 cu in engine... 1967-70. Most were 3 speed autos, but a 4spd Hurst shifted manual was 2% of all produced... you know I'm going to go back and look to see if this is a stick or auto now!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_Executive

1930 International Harvester (model SA cab) truck with an innovative shifter handle I've never seen before

Never seen anyone put ball peen hammer heads on any shifter before, damn good idea... looks cool!

the Velociraptor stood out at SEMA

What is rare? A 426 max wedge in a Dodge truck as a factory install

The 426 Wedge was part of the $1300 High Performance Package and could be ordered on its own from the separate and distinct $235 Custom Sports Special trim package.

The HP Package was only “officially” offered in 1964 and 1965 on D100 and D200 LWB trucks. The Custom Sports Special trim package was offered from 1964 thru 1967 and could be had on D or W 100, 200 Sweptline, Utiline or chassis cab in LWB or SWB trucks.

Dodge management only authorized 50 trucks could be built with the 426 Street Wedge High Performance Package — according to former Dodge truck engineer Bruce Thomas of the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, who said that far fewer than 50 examples were actually produced. Currently the registry recognizes 31 trucks with these packages or combinations of them.

Info via: http://www.allpar.com/model/ram/ram-history.html

For a great story about them, and a family restoration: http://www.cssregistry.com/css/stevebell.html

the Swamp Rat edition of the Dodge Ram, well, maybe it was called the Don Garlits special edition, but I couldn't find anything on the net about it

if anyone knows anything more about these, I'd like to know, there is nothing on the internet about it. But it's a 1995 special edition.

Love those fantastic painted intake butterfly valves, great airbrush work too!

Aren't those great?!

What a cool custom, I've never seen anyone make a steering wheel out of a rim! Great key, and, have you ever seen a B&M shifter on a firewall?

Cool business card too.

Cool tailgate handles