The Baksheesh Table at the Detroit Irony 24 Hours of LeMons was fairly groaning under the weight of all the beer bribes— they love their beer in Michigan— but one team mixed it up with a December 1977 Playboy

Apparently Ford contracted an out-of-work Detroit-area album cover artist for 80s hair bands to do the mascot for the 2011 Ford F-Series HD's all-new 6.7-liter V8 turbodiesel Scorpion engine. Or they were channeling the band of a similar name. [Pickuptrucks.com]

We showed you some great shots of the new 6.7-liter "Scorpion" Power Stroke turbocharged diesel V8 engine floating in space this morning. Now, thanks to PickupTrucks.com, we've got a slew of live shots of the torquegasmic new engine.

This is it. The 6.7-liter "Scorpion" Power Stroke V8 is Ford's first diesel motor for its 2011 F-Series HD pickups to be developed entirely in-house after three decades partnering with outside engine-maker Navistar. More info here and truckgasmic gallery below.

Automobile Mag caught the 2011 Ford F-series Super Duty pickup testing just miles from Ford headquarters in Dearborn. In their camera-phone-shot pictures, we're able to see some styling changes peeking through the Chantilly-lace-and-leather camouflage. [Automobile]

New spy photos of Ford's 6.7-liter "Scorpion" V8 diesel engine slapped into a Super Duty show some crazy Super Mario Brothers-looking pipe action. [PickupTrucks]

You see these bogus "Worst Cities In America" lists all the time, and usually the accompanying photo shows a vacant lot covered with weeds and broken Olde English 800 40-dog bottles, with a gutted '85 Cutlass or '79 Corolla in the foreground and a bullet-riddled abandoned apartment building in the background. This shot…