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
as Bo Hollinger
Don Johnson
as Harley McKay
Robin Mattson
as Junell
Robert Viharo
as Sergeant Bob Wittaker
Matt Greene
as Pete
Devon Ericson
as Betty
Philip Crews
as Larry
Walt Guthrie
as Big Man in Coffee Shop
Mary Ann Hearn
as Pat
Sam Kilman
as Cook
Bill Moses
as Sheriff Jackson
Pat O'Connor
as Officer Harris
