Owner Built

A 600+ Horse ’97 F-250 on Super-Duty Axles Forty thousand miles in 14 years. Yeah, you could say Andy Inman’s ’97 F-250 is his “baby.” […]

Old Hustle, New Flow: The Cummins-Powered Ford Lightning

Rocket on Wheels! If this first-generation Lightning doesn’t look familiar to you, it should. The infamous Pro Street F-150 has been an on-again, off-again regular […]

Redemption

One Builder Took Aspects From All Around the Truck Scene as Inspiration The truck scene can arguably be dissected into three basic categories. You have […]

Goin’ for Broke

A Budget-Built, 600hp 7.3L Puller Making the most of any situation is what life’s all about. For Zach Green, that meant converting his once daily-driven […]

Diamond Duster: One Slick Vintage GMC

Cream of the Crop As race season heats up, racers and builders across the land prepare to roll their rigs into race venues all over […]

Max Torc: The 1,500-HP 'Cuda

Diesel Muscle It’s not often than you run across a diesel-powered vehicle that’s unlike any other, yet that’s exactly the case with Weaver Customs’ ’70 […]

Mighty Green Machine: Custom Auto's Silverado 3500HD

The Hulk! When you have lemons, you make lemonade, and when you break an egg, you make an omelet. In this single-use, disposable world, it’s […]

Home-Brewed Monster: Custom '52 Chevy Crew Cab

Vintage Big-Rig Classic ’50s trucks are cool without a doubt. But they are not exactly spacious, especially for a family of four! When 52-year-old Brian […]

Road Less Traveled: A 2016 GMC Canyon

Off-Road Adventurer In a world where it seems everyone is building Chevy Silverados and GMC Sierras—boosting already-formidable Duramax engines to their full extent and lifting […]

Scott's 950-HP 7.3L Power Stroke

Never Judge a Book by its Cover… Despite how versatile diesel trucks are, we rarely come across one that can do it all—and when we […]

DuramaxTuner's Corvette Killer: 1,050-HP Suburban

Super SUV What do you do when the bar for streetable horsepower keeps moving higher and higher? You stay ahead of it by building a […]

Homegrown Highboy: The 7.3L-Powered '73 F-250

Classic Blue Rig What do you get when you combine a ’73 F-250 with an early Super Duty? How about a one-of-a-kind Highboy with modern […]

Plum Crazy: 1,200-HP Cummins Plymouth

Purple Performance Perfection The vehicle of choice for most Diesel World readers is a pickup with a really powerful diesel engine. And that was initially […]

200mph or Bust: A 1,000-HP '49 Ford

The Race-Ready Rust Bucket He was asking $350, but I talked him down to $200,” laughs Scott Birdsall, owner of Chuckles Garage, when asked about […]

The Maxx: 800-HP Dmax-Swapped H2

Hummer on Steroids The Hummer H1 Humvee has been one of the most capable factory off-road vehicles ever produced, a purpose-built, go-anywhere vehicle that the […]

Blue Streak: A Tastefully Modded 3500HD

Big Blue Beauty Something you don’t necessarily consider when deciding to take the wrenches to your rig is how easy it is to go over […]
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2,700 HP Worth Of Sled-Smashing Fury

Without a doubt, sled pulling is the most advanced form of diesel motorsports. It commands the intersection between the industry’s latest technological innovations and its […]
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Jimmy Screamin’ at Ollie: 1963 Oliver 1900 GM 4x4

The start of the ‘60s was when the passenger car horsepower races got hot and heavy, but not many car guys know the same thing […]
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Merchant Automotive’s Duramax-Powered Sand Drag Rail

Nick Beaudoin is co-owner of Merchant Automotive in Zeeland, Michigan. The shop’s not far from Lake Michigan, but more importantly, it’s just over an hour […]
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The 450hp Duramax-Powered '58 Chevy Apache

When we first spotted Bill Cielo’s ’58 Chevy pickup at a local dyno event, we literally ran over to see if it was diesel powered. […]