This half-hour special event highlights the often-untold story of how modern truck technology is the key component to emergency services. First responders tell us three remarkable stories of survival--and the trucks that came to the rescue.

America's growing community of truck customizers are going to never-imagined levels of performance, utility, and just plain awesomeness. How far are they willing to go? This special features far-out custom trucks like rally racer Ken Block's snow-conquering RaptorTrax and drifting champion Vaughn Gitten Jr.'s "ultimate fun-haver." Plus, there's a guide to how customization has come to the masses on budgets from small to huge. We'll show you just how the pickup game got picked up to the extreme.

Two top truck builders compete for a sale as they find, restore, and put their personal stamp on two classic trucks. Each shop must design with the buyer in mind and, with limited direction, blend their craftsmanship and style.

This one-hour special event lifts the veil on the operations at The Ford River Rouge Complex, where Ford's F-Series pickups--the best-selling vehicle in American for over 40 years--come to life. Cameras go behind the scenes and follow the high-tech descendants of Henry Ford's groundbreaking assembly lines. From stamping raw aluminum to the body shop to final assembly, we will reveal how a culture of manufacturing innovation has kept Ford trucks on top.

Executive produced by Dale Earnhardt Jr., this two-hour special highlights the innovative, fearless, and larger-than-life renegades who devoted their lives to pursuing the world's most perilous speed records--and breaking them. Featuring interviews with fanatical "speed demons," the show chronicles the history of speed through the eyes of those most passionate about it. The program will also follow the inimitable Ed Shadle, a speed record holder, as he makes a pulse-pounding attempt to set the first speed record in 20 years.

From big rigs hauling goods across the country to work vehicles muscling around off-road construction sites, trucks provide the power of American transportation. Host Ron Hazelton examines their history and development when he visits the main factory of Mack Trucks, the oldest truck manufacturer in the country. He joins the workers on the line as they go through the process of making vehicles that really are "built like a Mack Truck.

As they go about the business of saving lives, firefighters trust their safety to the security and performance of their fire truck. Host Ron Hazelton follows the evolution of fire trucks all the way from the horse-drawn steamers of a century ago to the state-of-the-art aerial apparatus used today.

Days after ramping up production of the 6th generation Corvette, General Motors gave Hands on History access to its Bowling Green, Kentucky plant to capture the manufacture of the total model redesign of the famous muscle car, which took designers eight years to conceive. Streamlined, narrowed, and trimmed--once considered a large sports car, it's now about the size of a Porsche 911. Reports indicate that the C6 is the most aerodynamic Corvette ever made, and with its 400hp engine, it can travel comfortably at 180 mph. Chevrolet replaced the Vette's signature hidden headlamps with exposed bi-xenon headlights. Inside GM's 1-million square foot facility, the C6 travels 7.2 miles along the assembly line, and host Ron Hazelton test-drives one of the first finished cars.

The first motorcycles, little more than buzzing bicycles, have grown up in less than a century to become a status symbol. Host Ron Hazelton goes to the Honda motorcycle factory in Marysville, Ohio, where the luxury Gold Wings have been made since 1979. He joins the assembly line to put together everything from the 6-cylinder engine to the handlebars. Then he rides the sleek cruiser into the sunset.

Host Ron Hazelton can't wait to get on the road again as he visits America's most famous highway--Route 66--to explore the history and evolution of road building. He does it all from clearing out a roadbed with a bulldozer to laying down asphalt with a state-of-the-art lay-down machine.

Farmers used to till the soil with a horse and plow, but not now! Join host Ron Hazelton at the John Deere factory in Waterloo, Iowa--a 48-acre plant where workers assemble 17,000 parts to make the modern tractor. On the assembly line, Ron helps put together the chassis, drop on the cab, test the engine, and bolt on the wheels. Then, he test drives the tractor and learns to use its GPS system.