Vintage Diesels

’15 Turbo Install & Preventing All-Out Fuel System Failure From the 5.9L and 6.7L in the Cummins camp to every RPO code Duramax ever produced, […]

1951 Caterpillar D364 Diesel Electric Set In the ‘30s, Caterpillar entered the diesel electric generator market. Cat assembled the units in house, sourcing the generator […]

ADDING WILWOOD DISC BRAKES TO AN F-250 When it comes to driving a big truck or pulling a trailer down the road, ensuring that you […]

Fullhook Performance’s Mopar-Powered ’51 Ford F-5 There comes a time when you see something so cool and unique that it just gets ingrained into your […]

Flying Diesels Whether you’ve seen them in person or not, you know there are diesel in ships and boats, road vehicles of all types, off […]

DEPARTMENT Better Filtration PPE Upgraded ‘01-‘19 Duramax Replacement Oil Filters The OEM GM filter comes up short with 133 square inches of filter media with […]

An Excellent Cummins Swap in a Vintage Classic We’ve all heard the expression that something is so clean you could “eat off it,” but it’s […]

No Spark Innovations’ F-100 Powerstroke Diesel Swap Losing a beloved vehicle in a wreck is never an easy thing to process. As long as there […]

Special thanks to Lyle Cummins, Mike Murphy and Randy Watts In past Vintage Smoke we’ve talked about the vaporizing fuel oil engines of the 1895-1930 […]

’68 International Loadstar With Heavy-Duty Street Styling Some truck builders are very brand specific when it comes to choosing their projects. Dyed-in-the-wool Chevy and Ford […]

R.H. Sheppard Company, of Hannover, Pennsylvania, began manufacturing diesel engines in 1937, carving out a small chunk of the diesel engine market. As with many […]

Aaron Brose Goes Light With a 900hp ShortBed There’s something to be said for building a truck just the way you want it and just […]

First Annual Diesel Truck Show Buckle up for an adrenaline-fueled ride into the heart of the first-ever iDrive Throwdown Truck Show! Dezerland Park in Orlando, […]

Voorheis’ Ground Pounder This month your online votes have selected Chris Voorheis as the Shell Rotella Truck of the Month winner. We congratulate Chris and […]

The Ultimate Callout Challenge 2023 Did Not Disappoint! Held in Brownsburg, Indiana, June 2-4, 2023, the Ultimate Callout Challenge diesel truck event delivered an explosive […]

Legend! That’s a powerful word that might be used a little to too often these days. When it comes to the DT466 diesel, though, it […]

Here’s a sneak peak into what’s to come. Every year after The SEMA Show we invite 15-30 of the hottest SEMA builds out to a […]

It’s late June 2021 as I write this. Let’s hope that the rumors I’ve heard about a second round of lockdowns due to delta, don’t […]

Gonna keep this one quick this month because, well, my first Son was born a week ago and I’ve got a little more on my […]

The Perfect Combo: Armor & Power Whether you run a private defense firm or a nation’s military, having a fleet of strong multi-purpose trucks is […]