The original truck from the film is owned by a private collector in Maryland, who kept it as a relic and also provided it for the production of Jeepers Creepers 3 (2017). He also rents it for some events and conventions.
At the time of its release this was the highest grossing film to ever be released during Labor Day weekend. The record would subsequently be broken by its own sequel, Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003).
Justin Long pointed out in several interviews that the film did not even have an official premiere since the MGM studio did not expect much from it.
In the scene with the cat lady, all her cats look through the screens on the windows because tuna had been smeared on them.
Tim Sullivan: (at around 1h 2 mins) horror film actor and director appears on a wanted poster in the police station - a nod from a friend Brad Parker who worked in the art department of the movie.