A stock-car veteran (Rory Calhoun) teaches a grease monkey to race in the Southern 500 in Darlington, S.C.
Rory Calhoun
as Mitch Cooper
Alan Hale Jr.
as Buddy Schaeffer
Connie Hines
as Rene York
Race Gentry
as Les York (as John Gentry)
Ed McGrath
as Reichert