The WORST episodes of Roadkill
Every episode of Roadkill ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Roadkill!
Ride along with HOT ROD's David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan as they continue their love/hate relationship with hot rods, street machines and other highly strung performance vehicles. In Roadkill, Freiburger and Finnegan hit the road in everything from a 1968 Ford Ranchero to a 1500 horsepower Camaro called the F-Bomb. Just getting to their destination is an adventure.
#1 - Off-Road Pacer Road Trip!
Season 13 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/21/2024
Freiburger surprises David Chappelle with a road trip in an old project: Dirt Every Day's '76 Off-Road Pacer. Not much works in this lifted 4x4 AMC, but that doesn't stop the guys from ignoring problems, tempting fate and pressing on down the road.
#2 - The Rescued Ranger!
Season 12 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/13/2023
Some vehicles need to be saved, but we need to save ourselves from some vehicles. In this episode of Roadkill, Freiburger and Dulcich divert from their original plan of road tripping a Cadillac to rescue a ’67 Ford F250 that was recently purchased by a member of the crew. As they road trip the truck, it’s not long before they realize they might actually be rescuing the crew member who bought it.
#3 - Ford Truck Rescue!
Season 13 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/29/2024
Freiburger and Finnegan find and rescue a beautiful '70s-styled 1956 Ford F-100 truck that's had more than four decades of neglect.
#4 - Road Tripping a '39 Ford!
Season 12 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/8/2023
There's only one way to test drive an 84-year-old car with a 68-year-old engine: take it on a road trip! Freiburger and Finnegan attempt to keep a '39 Ford running on a 1,000-mile road trip to scope out a future project vehicle in Texas. Along the way, they manage to break a Humvee, crush a Honda with a tank, and party in New Orleans.
#5 - Blasphemi vs. F-Rod!
Season 13 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/12/2024
The matchup you've been waiting for! Finnegan and Freiburger go heads-up on the dragstrip in their eight-second project cars. After a road trip in the Blasphemi, the guys add a new supercharger and dyno tune the '55 Hemi-powered Chevy to over 1,000 hp, before seeing how its new tech holds up against Freiburger's old school, all-mechanical, big-block '31 Ford Model A.
#6 - Trash Turbo Trans Am Transmission Trouble!
Season 13 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/3/2024
Freiburger and Dave Chappelle road trip a derelict 1980 turbo Trans Am over 600 miles to a car show, with several transmission swaps along the way.
#7 - Have Cars? Build Track!
Season 12 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/18/2023
What's the only logical thing to do after buying retired dirt track race cars? Build your own track, of course! Freiburger and Finnegan build their own dirt track in order to race their newly acquired Monte Carlo-based, 1940s-bodied, V-8 powered machines. Watch as the guys race wheel to wheel after installing an engine and bulldozing their friend's lawn.
#8 - On- and Off-Road Trip in the Scrambler!
Season 12 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/3/2023
Pavement, dirt, and rocks—this one has it all. In this episode of Roadkill, Freiburger takes Mike Cotten on his first 4-wheeling adventure to Moab, Utah, to meet up with Dave Chappelle. The guys hit the road in Freiburger’s 350 V-8-powered ’81 Jeep Scrambler, find a hidden treasure land speed shop, and conquer rockcrawling trails all before rescuing a swamped Jeep from a water hole.
#9 - Mustang Rescue and Road Trip!
Season 12 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/5/2023
There are many ways to take in the sights of our nation's capital, but the best way is in a '69 Mustang that's sat for over 27 years. Freiburger and Finnegan get more than they bargained for as they revive a very rusted-out '69 Mustang with a 302 V-8. After decades of neglect, the guys use some genius repairs to get it back on the road and tour Washington, D.C.
#10 - Winter Beater Battle and Road Trip!
Season 11 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/7/2022
What do you do with access to a sprawling, deserted, snow-covered factory? You buy cheap beaters for a winter adventure battle and real-life road testing! Freiburger picks the adventure and Finnegan picks the vehicles, a survivalist 2001 VW Jetta TDI and a horribly modified 2001 Toyota Sequoia. Find out which one survives the road trip to discover their next project.
#11 - Building Finnegan's Dream-Car Firebird
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/7/2017
On this episode of Roadkill powered by Dodge, we do the Tire Rack One Lap of America race the Roadkill way: buying a 1969 Pontiac Firebird that hasn't run in 17 years, changing every mechanical bit of it in three days, and then hitting the road for action! We do all this while assembling one of Mike Finnegan's dream cars—a first-gen Firebird—to conjure up bygone days of blasting around in his high-school buddy's car. Tony Angelo from HOT ROD Garage joins us for long days of wrenching and longer miles of driving on the Roadkill quest to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
#12 - Dirt Duster vs. Vette Kart: Desert Thrashing!
Season 12 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/10/2023
It’s another episode of Off-Roadkill! On this episode of Roadkill, Freiburger and Finnegan get their ’73/74 dirt-track Duster back up and running for a road trip and off-road, desert showdown against their famous Vette Kart. Chris Birdsong originally built the Duster, and now he just might have the chance to win it back if he can beat Finnegan around a muddy off-road course.
#13 - Racing One Lap of America! Kinda
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/4/2017
The Tire Rack One Lap of America 2017 was a race involving 19 events at 8 tracks over a 3,500-mile road trip. Can you imagine Roadkill surviving that unscathed? No! If you saw our last episode you know that Mike Finnegan's 1969 Pontiac, which we built in three days, blew up an engine early in the race. Along with guest hosts Tony Angelo of Hot Rod Garage and Elana Scherr from Roadkill.com, Finnegan and Freiburger dive in to fix the Pontiac engine and hit the road to redemption! Roadkill is powered by Dodge, and it's easy to see why when Tony caps it all off with merciless drifting in the Challenger SRT Hellcat that Elana and Freiburger were using to stomp the One Lap tracks.
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#14 - Thrashing Roadkill Project Cars!
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/22/2016
In this episode you’ll see a huge road trip that includes Freiburger-versus-Finnegan showdowns with crazy burnouts in the General Mayhem and General Maintenance; drag racing with the Blasphemi, General Mayhem, Draguar, and Vette Kart; and road-racing in the Vette Kart and General Maintenance. It’s all part of Roadkill Takes America, presented by Dodge, an event that was held in August of 2015.
#15 - Project Car Showdown & Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge!
Season 8 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/25/2019
Surprise again! Remember when we did the last project car showdown for Episode 74 instead of 75? Well, we’re keeping up with the chaos by serving up this one for Episode 101 instead of 100. You knew we wouldn’t let you down and not deliver a Roadkill-style showdown around another milestone. On this episode of Roadkill, David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan bring their best Dodge project cars out to the M1 Concourse for the annual Roadkill Nights event powered by Dodge in Pontiac, Michigan. This time it’s a road course, skidpad, and drag racing with seven favorite project cars. And since this is an all-Dodge showdown, we had to bring out the Mopar man himself, Steve Dulcich, to partake in the action. Will he lose the course and kill maximum cones? Find out on this epic showdown!
#16 - Mazdarati 2.0!
Season 13 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/8/2024
Freiburger and Finnegan attempt to build another mid-engine Mazda minitruck by scavenging a drivetrain from a Hot Rod Garage project vehicle
#17 - 5-Day Pro Street Daytona Build!
Season 12 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/23/2023
Can the guys make something from nothing in five days? Freiburger and Finnegan enlist Steve Dulcich to help resurrect the worst '69 Dodge Charger Daytona clone by recycling project car parts. This "Dumpster Fire Daytona" sports a 383 from the Death Metal Charger, a clutchless five-speed from Blasphemi, and a Dana 60 rear end from the Rubber Duck Firebird. What could go wrong?
#18 - Muscle Truck Showdown!
Season 12 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/31/2023
It’s a muscle truck road trip and faceoff! On this episode of Roadkill, Freiburger and Finnegan take Finnegnan’s LT4-powered ’67 Chevy C-10 on its first road trip to compete at LS Fest West against Freiburger’s LS6-powered ’74 Chevy short-bed stepside, Original Muscle Truck. After getting the C-10 roadworthy, the guys use Roadkill ingenuity to beat the desert heat and beat on their trucks.
#19 - The Long, Long Hauler!
Season 12 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/13/2023
What's better than hauling your race car with something cool? Hauling it with something big! Freiburger and Finnegan fix up a stretched '86 Chevy crew cab "limo dually" to haul the '56 Chevy Field Car to multiple dragstrips. Will the famous '56 with a 500-hp small block run its fastest quarter mile yet, or will the ridiculous stretched truck fail to get it there?
#20 - General Mayhem Road Trip!
Season 12 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/25/2023
Is this the last run for the '68 Charger known as General Mayhem? Unfortunately, when it comes to racing down Bandimere Speedway, it is. Freiburger and Finnegan battle altitudes as they road-trip from Yellowstone Drag Strip to Colorado for the first and last pass of the General Mayhem at Bandimere before the longstanding Thunder Mountain track closes down.
#21 - Long Live the Raunchero!
Season 13 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/1/2024
The Raunchero is taking its last road trip … for now. Freiburger and Finnegan escort their 302-powered '68 Ford Ranchero on its final 1,100-mile journey, before it serves hard time at the Old Montana Prison & Auto Museum in Deer Lodge, Montana.
#22 - Hemi Gremmie Surprise at Roadkill Nights!
Season 11 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/17/2022
Finnegan gives back to Freiburger big time. After a devastating first road trip, on which the 426 hemi that's wedged into the 1975 AMC hurt itself, Finnegan uses a historied engine to overhaul the Gremmie. And with the help of Newbern, Cotten and Dulcich, he surprises Freiburger at Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge. Why not hook a friend up with 700 hp of hemi goodness?
#23 - Junkyard Rescue T-37 Pontiac!
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/2/2019
How many times have David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan been burned by rescuing a car from a junkyard? Too many, but this time it’s a total win! Steve Magnante found an awesome ’71 Pontiac T-37 at L&L Classic Auto in Idaho, on Episode 15 of Roadkill’s Junkyard Gold and now he’s led the guys to rescue this treasure. After finally learning their lesson, Freiburger and Finnegan take the time to “do things the right way,” taking proper precautions to revive the motor that’s 38 years stagnate. “Spoiler” alert—it doesn’t all go smooth. After many speedbumps, the guys finally get the T-37 running, visit an Evel Knievel landmark, and even find out that their engine is something even better than they thought. What’s under the Pontiac’s hood? Find out on this episode of Roadkill.
#24 - Dirt-Track Challenger Rescue and Thrash!
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/5/2016
The guys made a trek north to Oregon to hang out at a Mopar-and-llama farm to revitalize the winner of a Facebook coolest car contest, a 1970 Dodge Challenger that used to dirt-track race in the '90s.
#25 - Rat Rod Jeep Death-Wish Trip!
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/3/2013
David Freiburger claims that this road trip on this episode of Roadkill is the most stupid thing that he and Mike Finnegan have ever done. Freiburger wanted to do a Jeep trip, so Finnegan bought an old Willys flatfender--one that had been turned into a two-wheel-drive rat rod using some very sketchy fabrication. The guys made it semi-safe, then hit the road to drive to the Desert Bar in Parker, Arizona, where they sold the Jeep to a guy for the price of their bar tab. ep015