Lost

Lost was the second deleted scene from Cars.

Plot

Lightning catches up with Mack, but then he finds out that it wasn't Mack. It was a truck that reads "Jerry's Junk" on his trailer (most likely an earlier version of Jerry Recycled Batteries). The truck drives away, leaving Lightning at the crossing intersection. Lightning doesn't know what to do. A tumbleweed touches over him, and then, in the background, a coyote somehow howls, he gets jumpscared, and all of sudden, on his left, he sees the Interstate with a bunch of moving traffic, and quickly rushes towards it. Next, it gets dark, and then a thud happens. Lightning finds himself going off the road. Then he goes airborne, falls down a hill, and crashes into a bunch of branches. He bumps into a car behind him. He turns to it, and the car was a dead car, freaking Lightning out. He looks around, and more dead cars were everywhere. One was even hanging on a tree. Several of them have branches growing through them. Lightning then imagines that some of those dead cars are about to grab him with tree branches. He runs into a fence. The fence gets tangled on him. On the other side of the fence was the grille of another dead car. Lightning gets back on the road and tries to run away from the dead car's grille. Lightning eventually gets untangled and runs away. The dead car's grille just falls over.

Trivia

• The most likely reason why this scene was deleted was because of the dark, terrifying, and creepy elements.
• According to the title card, this scene was made in June 2002.
• The graveyard scene was parodied and reused with some modifications in the The Radiator Springs 500½.
• Jerry's Junk is very similar to Jerry Recycled Batteries.
• Jerry's Junk also resembles a 1940's Chevrolet chassis cab.
• The same line by Jerry Recycled Batteries "Turn on your lights, you moron!" was reused in the final film.