Las Vegas is always a good place to be if you’re into custom cars and trucks, and the A Day to Remember Car & Truck Show 2025 gave everyone another reason to head to Sin City. Hosted by Freaks of Nature LV, the 12th annual show rolled into The STRAT Hotel, Casino & Tower in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 8, 2025, bringing out a killer mix of custom trucks, mini-trucks, slammed rides, classics and everything in between.
If you’ve been around the custom truck scene for a while, you already know A Day to Remember isn’t just about parking a bunch of cool rides together for the day. This show has always been about the people behind the builds, the friendships made through the scene and remembering the friends we’ve lost along the way.
Of course, having a parking lot packed with badass rides doesn’t hurt either.
The 2025 A Day to Remember Car & Truck Show brought builders and enthusiasts together at The STRAT right on Las Vegas Boulevard.
It’s pretty hard to beat Las Vegas as the backdrop for a custom car and truck show. You can spend the day checking out rides, catch up with people you haven’t seen since the last show and then you’re already in Vegas when the show wraps up.
For anyone traveling in from out of town, that makes A Day to Remember more than a one-day event. Load up the truck, grab some friends and you’ve got yourself a full Vegas weekend.
Once everyone rolled in Saturday morning, though, it was all about the rides.
And there were plenty of them to check out.
One of the things we always like seeing at Gauge Magazine is an event that hasn’t forgotten where the custom truck scene came from.
There were plenty of mini-trucks at A Day to Remember Las Vegas 2025, and that’s exactly how it should be.
For those of us who have been around this scene for a few years, there’s just something about seeing a laid-out mini sitting at a show that never gets old.
Nissan Hardbodys, Toyota pickups, Mazda B-Series trucks, Chevy S-10s, GMC S-15s, Ford Rangers and other compact trucks helped build the mini-truck movement into what it became.
Naturally, there was no shortage of slammed trucks either.
Along with the old-school minis, A Day to Remember 2025 brought out plenty of full-size custom trucks sitting just about as low as you can get them.
Air suspension has completely changed what builders can do with a street-driven custom truck. Pull into the show, hit the switches and suddenly you’ve got a truck sitting inches—or sometimes basically nothing—off the pavement.
But anybody who has built one knows getting it low is only part of the equation.
Getting everything to look right when it’s down is where the work comes in.
Wheel and tire combinations, suspension geometry, body clearance, tubs, frame work and dozens of little details all have to work together.
Even though the truck scene is a huge part of A Day to Remember, there was a lot more happening than just pickups.
Custom cars, classics, Volkswagens and other builds added some variety to the show field and made it easy to spend a few hours walking around without seeing the same thing over and over again.
That’s something we really enjoy about today’s custom automotive scene.
Everything overlaps now.
You might see a mini-truck using ideas borrowed from traditional hot rods. A classic might be sitting on a modern air-management system. A late-model truck could have paint and bodywork inspired by the custom vehicles being built 20 or 30 years ago.
Everybody borrows a little something from everybody else, and the end result is some pretty wild stuff.
At the end of the day, the A Day to Remember Car & Truck Show 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada, was exactly what a good custom automotive event should be.
Cool rides. Good people. Plenty of ideas for your own project. And probably at least one vehicle that made you wonder how the hell they pulled that off.
The 12th annual show gave Freaks of Nature LV another chance to bring the custom car and truck community together while keeping the real meaning behind the event alive.
Cars and trucks will always change. Projects will come and go. The wheels everybody has to have this year will probably be replaced by something completely different a few years from now. But the people you meet along the way are what you’ll remember.
And that’s really what A Day to Remember is all about.
Photos by: Cheri Delgadillo
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