America has always loved its pickup trucks the way poets love heartbreak—deeply, loudly, and without apology. From farm fields to factory lots, these machines built the country as much as they carried ...

The late 1950s and most of the 1960s were a time of great turmoil for the American auto industry. Every new product from one company got an instant response from the competition, and this tit for tat ...

My recent article on the Ford Ranchero I christened as the first “car-pickup” generated numerous reader responses, including emails from Gabor Korthy, Augusta, Maine, and Guy S. (Sam) Colorossi, ...