In 1958, two teenagers take their pride and joy, a hopped-up Chevy, and start a cross-country journey to enter it in the National Championship drag races in California. Along the way they hook up with a pretty but dingy waitress who quits her job and hops in their car--and turns out to be more trouble than they thought--drag-race a gang of town punks who lose to to them and then accuse them of cheating, and come up against a local cop who is obsessed with putting these two "juvenile delinquents" in jail.
Nick Nolte
Don Johnson
Robin Mattson
Robert Viharo
Matt Greene
Devon Ericson
Philip Crews
Walt Guthrie
Mary Ann Hearn
Sam Kilman
Bill Moses
Pat O'Connor