Mud, dirt, arroyos, rocks, sand, hills…you’d be hard-pressed to convince some diesel truck guys to take their pretty bro-dozers off-road, but for this early 1920s Dodge Brothers sedan, it’s just another work day in the oil industry, and it’s brutal. I always look at cars from this time period as being thin and frail, fragile and best used on sunny days when the time was right. Oh, how wrong I apparently was. These cars weren’t pampered and treated with kid gloves, they were used and abused with abandon, and if the cars couldn’t hold up they’d be parked where they died and horses would be called in. Manufacturers knew that fact and would go out of their way to prove that their automobiles would survive all the brutality that a customer could possibly inflict on their cars.

Dodge Brothers were the number two manufacturer in the United States about this time, and they knew that the only way they were going to maintain that lead over the multitude of other manufacturers was to stay one step ahead of them, so they created and distributed this promotional footage. A silent film, you’ll see just how durable the Dodge Brothers sedan was, because they go out of their way to torture-test the car, including rolling it over. Nevermind any car that rolls out of the assembly line today…we’d love to see a Ram or a Wrangler hold up to an ass-kicking like this!