The gang ends up in Winona, Mississipi, and meet talking car Speed Buggy and his friends, whereupon both groups team up to solve the mystery of the town's weird weather.
This episode contains examples of:
- All There in the Manual: In his own cartoon, Mark from Speed Buggy was drawn with light skin, but for background purposes he was intended to be a Native American. For his appearance on this show, his skin was colored much darker than it ever was on his own show. Without that fact, the viewers might as well assume Mark got a bad suntan.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: When Scooby meets Speed Buggy, he freaks out and says cars are not supposed to talk. Mark comments, "That's pretty funny coming from a dog that talks."
- Expy Coexistence: Tinker of Speed Buggy was basically an expy of Shaggy and they both appear together in this series. The same also goes for Mark and Debbie who are both expies of Fred and Daphne respectively (with their roles as leaders switched).
- The Mountains of Illinois: The episode is set in Winona, Montgomery County, Mississippi, but that part is not mountainous in any way; the closest mountain in Mississippi is in the northeast of the state.
- Police Are Useless: Played with. The gang and the Speed Bugs capture the masked criminals and the evidence, but prior to the unmasking, the local sheriff is the one to interpret the evidence to figure out the villains' real estate scam and identity before the gang suspects that person.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The town of Winona has shrunken down to barely a dozen people as a result of the titular winds. When the gang needs the Mystery Machine fixed, the local farmer tells them that the last mechanic in town sold his garage and moved away two weeks ago.
- Swiss-Cheese Security: While the town was partly abandoned but not a full Ghost Town, it seems odd that the town's council or government left the Hall of Records wide open for anyone to enter at their leisure, considering very important documents are supposedly kept there.
