lil red express

[Dom426]

does this truck have a factory 440.....i found one layin out in a field in colo

 

[mopower1958]

Nope. They had the E-58 police 360 in them with an 830 cfm thermoquad,dual exhaust with an H-pipe, and a special high stall convertor. The 78 did not have cats, the 79 did. Some had black interiors with buckets, some had a red bench. My 79 that I bought new ran 15.14 at 93 mph in 1980 with N-50'S on Cragars!!!!!

 

[mopower1958]

Fastest 0-100mph production vehicle in 78. They are a pain to keep immaculate unless you store them because of the oak wood on the sides of the bed and on the tailgate. I refinished the wood on the side of mine 8 times in the 16 years and 170,000 miles I owned it

 

[Get Bit]

I thought at one time they made a War Lock edition with the 440 in it. I've seen a couple, might have been something special that a dealership or someone did. They were black instead of red.

Where abouts is it in CO?

 

[ViperJeff]

The only thing I have to offer on the subject

 

[ViperJeff]

One More

 

[Brat]

sweet truck,thanks for the pictures Jeff.

 

[RatMotor]

I've always wanted one of those, I prefer the single headlight in the 1st set of pics to the double stacked version - I think the '78 is the single?.
Either way, a 528 crate Hemi would slide right in

 

[mauiSRT/10]

Nice pics Jeff!!!!


patrick

 

[TNVIPER]

I thought at one time they made a War Lock edition with the 440 in it. I've seen a couple, might have been something special that a dealership or someone did. They were black instead of red.

Where abouts is it in CO?

They did but the 360 was the badazz.....the 440 was a 2 bbl version of a monster that had been beaten by a liberal congress at the time...heck, I was there...

http://www.geocities.com/warlockclub/whistory.html



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[Django]

Lil' Red Truck is the great, great grand daddy of the Ram SRT-10.

D

 

[6pakattack]

Then they did that POWER WAGON Version that was sweet too !!!Ahhhhh,the good ole days !!!:rock: :rock:

 

[muscletrucks]

All the above posts are correct. They came with a 360. 2,188 made in 1978 and 5,XXX in 79.

I bought my 78 back in 87 and just finished restoring it from the ground up about 4 years ago.

I thought about adding a 79 to my stable but just not enough time or garage room.

Here are a few pics..

 

[MUTT]

theres one running around town here...looks like it needs to be redone...does anyone remember a truck called the WARLOCK?

 

[muscletrucks]

theres one running around town here...looks like it needs to be redone...does anyone remember a truck called the WARLOCK?

They were the brother truck of the Lil Red. Some had wood bed rails if I remember correctly. I don't recall the stats (how many made, engine etc..)

http://autohobbypage.com/cgi-bin/mopar.pl?/show/99/wam/wam035.jpg

Here is the history of the WARLOCK:

http://www.geocities.com/warlockclub/whistory.html

 

[MUTT]

They were the brother truck of the Lil Red. Some had wood bed rails if I remember correctly. I don't recall the stats (how many made, engine etc..)

http://autohobbypage.com/cgi-bin/mopar.pl?/show/99/wam/wam035.jpg

Here is the history of the WARLOCK:

http://www.geocities.com/warlockclub/whistory.html

very cool...been a long time since i have even thought about that truck...great info:rock:

 

[Dom426]

I thought at one time they made a War Lock edition with the 440 in it. I've seen a couple, might have been something special that a dealership or someone did. They were black instead of red.

Where abouts is it in CO?

ignacio

 

[Dom426]

thanks everyone for the info....i am gonna go offer the guy a case of beer we will see what happens....ill get some pics of it!

 

[mopower1958]

Pic of mine brand new June '79

Pic from October '82, going to Mopar show with Cragars

Last pic I could find from May '92 with Draglites and N-50 rears

In the last pic is a pic of the rear of my '67 Dart 383 GTS that I sold:dontknow: :dontknow:

 

[davo19]

snatch it up!!! store until you can restore it!!!! they are very hard to find around here.