"That's the time." "There." "That plymouth had a hemi with a torque flight." "I believe we sawed that guy off even if we did lose 200." "What you need?" "High test" "Wanna fill it up?" "Yeap." "Where's the gas tank at?" "Chevy block?" "Yeah." "She look like a lot of work." "396?" "454." "No shit?" "What kind of transmission?" "4 speed." "You build the headers." "Yeah." "How fast will she run?" "That depends on who's around." "Anything fast around here?" "Got a Thames panel truck." "It's got a little bit of transmission troubles right now though." "Probably blow our doors right off, wouldn't it?" "It's really bumpy back here." "What kind of car is this anyway?" "You guys aren't the Zodiac killers or anything like that, are you?" "Just passing through." "L.P's truck was worse." "He wouldn't be awake yet he would want to smoke a joint." "We were supposed to go to grand canyon but he kept getting stoned and pulling off the side of the road." "Say, which way are we going?" "East." "That's fine, I never been east." "She don't seem to be breathing right might be the jets." "Don't you want to race him?" "Is that what you guys do?" "I mean didn't a car come up and challenged you?" "It's too heavy to do in a Porsche just for kicks." "We'd take him in a quarter mile but he'd probably lose us in a long time." "How much bread we got?" "Got 300 racing bread. 20 to spend." "Could you lend me some change?" "I need to catch the bus to San Francisco." "Thank you very much." "Excuse me sir I'm trying to catch the bus to San Francisco, but I got sick..." "I'm sick of you..." "Excuse me sir I'm trying to get the bus to San Francisco, and I got sick and I used all the allowance my parents gave me now I've got to get back." "Excuse me sir I'm trying to catch the bus to San Francisco, can you help me out?" "You need money?" "Can you give me some change?" "Well..." "I'm trying to catch the bus back to San Francisco" "Can you wait for monday?" "A 70 Camaro." "68 Barracuda" "There's a Road runner with a hemi in it." "70 cuda" "They got some muscle here tonight." "...old 55" "Listen all we got to do is rope one." "I think I spotted something." "A 32 Ford It's got a 427 in it." "Those are carter carburators." "11 inches rubber in the rear." "Clean machine." "It's clean enough." "Not bad for a home grown." "It's a little more than that sonny." "Say you must have something real special here." "Gee Mister I bet it's pretty quick." "You wanna find out?" "Well ordinarily I jump at the opportunity but the thing is I'm just not in the habit to see a chevy work against some two-bit piece of junk." "Let's make it fifty." "Make it three yards motherfucker we'll have an automobile race." "Hey, this guy just bet 300 bucks." "Where to?" "Airport road, you can follow me." "I'll walk to the motel." "Let me have a shadow of rye and a glass of beer, please?" "But you're not 25 you're 32 you can't play these kind of games anymore." "Now I can't do it anymore." "I get upset now, you upset me and I get angry." "Well don't do it." "But you're not..." "Let me have a scotch and a twist of beer." "...The only time you care about me, you wanna use me, and I'm tired of that." "You gonna have to deal with that, baby." "Every time I hit you where it hurts you don't wanna deal with it." "I want a response from you, don't you withdraw from me because everytime I need you you withdraw from me." "You don't need me, you need a lamppost out on the street." "If I wanted that tonight I'd be walking out." "You're out of your fucking tree..." "Oh, fuck you!" "Fuck you!" "Where you going?" "Amarillo." "You're in luck." "Great God Almighty, Mister." "She's got a hard pull, doesn't she?" "0 to 60 in 6.5." "She'll do a quarter mile 13.40." "Performance and image that's what it's all about." "It's a mighty fancy automobile." "I bought her in Bakersfield California, I was testing jets at the time." "And it got so I wasn't getting enough action on the ground" "You know what I mean." "I mean you just can't stay with the same act forever." "So when the 455 came out with the Mark 4 RAM air and the B floored in" "I caught a high rise and a set up." "I was on line." "394 HP and 500 foot-pounds of torque." "Whatever that is it's all in the folder in the glove compartment." "Take a look at it." "Oh she's a real road king, all right." "How come you ain't still in Bakersfield?" "Cause I'm in the south west." "What kind of sound you like?" "Make pardon?" "Rock, soul, Hillbilly..." "West?" "What's your taste?" "You don't have to matter to me." "Might be a felt plug." "I wish we were back in Santa-Fe." "So when I got shot down twice over Korea" "I decided it was time for fun and games." "A couple of years off you know what I mean?" "Then I ran out of cash and had to take a job testing jets." "Well for a while, then I got so I needed a little more action on the ground." "I mean you can't stay with the same act forever." "Right?" "About that time when the 455 came out with the Mark IV RAM air and the B floored..." "Oh, the son of bitches." "They've been following me across two states." "Three states." "They keep wanting to challenge me." "They come up behind me and they honk." "Me I keep my cool." "I don't get into it, they get hysterical." "They're just a bunch of small town car freaks, that's all they are." "I tell you one thing, Mister." "They'd run right over you if they get the chance." "That's home made stuff..." "They can't stand up the 455, no way." "Shit, I'd be off in 20mn." "Color me gone, baby." "Why don't I get to sit up front?" "What is this anyway?" "Some kind of a masculine power trip?" "I'm shoved in back with all this goddamn tools." "Screwdrivers and wrenches don't really do it for me you know." "We ought to get us some action soon." "We'll need bread to do a little work on the carbs and check out the rear end." "I don't see anybody paying attention on my rear end." "Listen, I've got to take a leak." "Honest, you got to stop this car." "Put her out for a while." "Good morning." "Fill it up." "I check the oil, sir?" "Yeah, yeah." "Good morning." "Morning we need a..." "I check the oil sir?" "No, he'll get that." "I don't like being crowded by a couple of punk road hogs clear across two states." "I don't." "I don't believe I've ever seen you." "Course there's a lot of cars on the road like yours." "They all look the same." "They perform about the same." "If I wanted to bother, I could suck you right up my tail pipe." "Sure you could." "Thanks sir, hope you come back." "Do you hear those cicadas?" "Yeah." "You talk about survival man those are some tricky bugs." "They come out of the ground every seven years." "and they live on the ground the rest of the time and the only time they come out of the ground it's to pull over their skins and grow some wings so they can come and then they die... but before they die they manage to lay some more eggs." "We have a better life, haven't we?" "You made them sick." "Oh boy, aren't they?" "Well, don't get any splinters." "You bore me." "These are groovy records." "Play one." "Are you travelling with those guys?" "Yeah." "Say..." "Where'd you get such a far out car?" "Vegas." "I won it shooting craps." "Though I'd drive to New-York and spend some money." "I don't care." "I just want to hang loose." "How fast that car go?" "Humm..." "I don't know." "Pretty fast." "I can take him..." "I know I can take that antique." "How you doing?" "Fine." "Better?" "I think we got us a squirrel to run." "You've got nothing inside that engine but a bunch of worn-out..." "We'll race." "Sure we'll race, damn it we'll race." "For pinks." "Pink slips?" "You mean for cars?" "Wanna race for the whole shot?" "That's right all the rolling stock." "Where to?" "You name it." "In that case smart ass, Washington D.C." "Right Washington D.C." "Washington D.C." "Just a second man." "Now you're on you're definitely on." "I was going there anyway." "Show him how to do it." "We put the pinks in an enveloppe send them to D.C General delivered" "First one there waits for his car..." "Here, I'll be there." "I've done it before." "How much do I owe you?" "8.50 $." "Thanks, you all come back." "We'll stay in the country roads, less heat than way." "Never say you're racing or they'll bust you for it." "No way babe they ain't gonna see me." "Turn that shit off." "What?" "Turn it off." "It gets in the way." "We had some good sleep last night." "Leastways I did." "We can be better for a long race." "All that sweet stuff and cokes get to you come night." "How are your eyes?" "Good it all feels good." "I figure we can go straight through." "3 or 4 stops for gas." "Eat light." "It's best to keep a hunger on." "I'll relieve you in 6 hours." "I feel good I can take it all the way." "OK." "There's a little muscle jumping around on your neck." "I like it that way." "It's gonna rain." "He'd better find a relief driver or he's in trouble... unless he has some uppers." "This sure is a pretty car." "My cousin he's to have one this." "Tear up the road with it." "It's a test car." "I'm driving a test now, as a matter of fact." "Racing a Chevy across the country." "Detroit set it up." "If I win it could mean millions to the organization." "How far you go?" "Oklahoma city." "Never been there?" "No I never been there." "I'm kind of strech out." "Don't mind if I make myself comfortable?" "No." "I'm not into that." "I just thought it might help you relax while you drive." "This is competition man." "I got no time." "Hey, hey sweetheart..." "Come on." "Yeah, well we got to get on it." "You son of a bitch ." "You would have left me, wouldn't you?" "Okay, get your ass out of here." "But it's raining." "You can't let me out here." "Out." "I told you to keep your claws out of me." "Come on." "How was I supposed to know?" "We could still be friends can't we?" "Out." "Well, I'm ain't moving." "First..." "First town we come to, you're out." "I got no time for sidetracks." "Might cinch jets on the carburator." "Get me a cheeseburger with everything on it." "And a coke." "Stay back away from me." "Howdy." "Can I help you?" "Yeah, this man's a danger officer, he passed us on the right couple of miles back." "I swear he's gone about 90 mph." "Few steps back away from me." "Howdy." "Howdy." "That's right." "He was weaving all over the road." "He scared my wife half to death." "He must be on something." "Say, you need me to witness or anything like that?" "No I can handle it." "Well, I did pass and my wife..." "Hi, man." "Listen, you creep." "I don't need any help from you." "Understand?" "I'm in this race all the way and I don't need to be patronized." "Don't put me on." "I've been around the track too many times for that." "Do you understand?" "We just wanted to let you know we're right along with you on the road." "We're all in this together." "Right?" "Look, banana brain." "I had those cops eating right out of my exhaust pipe." "You blew the whole thing." "I had a police escort across the state line because my wife happens to be having a set of twins." "That's beautiful!" "Just don't fuck around with me." "Okay, right." "Why don't we take a truce for a few minutes?" "Would you like a hard boiled egg or something?" "Here." "I've got other items." "Depending on which way you want to go, up, down, or sideways." "Here's to your destruction." "Same to you." "You want another egg?" "No." "Well..." "Here we are on the road." "Yeah, that's were we are all right." "I'm not worried about shutting you down." "I hope you know that?" "I figured as much." "However, I've been around..." "I get to one end of this country and bounce off like a rubber ball and head right back to the other side." "I've been scouting locations for a down home movie on fast cars." "But a real race is more interesting." "I could choose locations along the way." "You've been doing this much?" "A little yeah." "I knew you were a car nut." "I can spot the type." "But all that speed is going to run out on you of these days." "You can't be a nomad forever." "Unless you flow with it like me." "Now you take a trip that I..." "Listen why don't you ride with me." "They're not for you." "All they think about is cars." "They can't show you the kind of time I can." "Were would we go?" "Miami." "Maybe Montreal." "Mexico, Mexico is something else." "The thing is to keep moving with a few dashes out of the country." "You got to have foreign taste just to keep a balance." "Otherwise you fall apart." "I don't know." "Not right now." "Anyway you'll probably lose the race." "I'm serious you know." "I'm not just kidding around." "You have yourself a real street sweeper here if you put a little work into it." "I go fast enough." "You can never go fast enough." "I tell you another thing, you're not gonna make another fifty miles the way the carburator is." "You're leaking gas all over the engine." "What I got to do?" "Get it fixed in the next town." "If they have the parts it should only cost you an hour." "That's all I need." "I can't survive a breakdown." "It's allright, you guys you got a relief driver you can change over." "You ought to see what I've been picking off the road." "One fantasy after another." "Look we'll wait for you." "It doesn't interest me to be 500 miles ahead." "How the hell I know you'll wait?" "I'll go with you, man." "It's only 10 miles from here, next town." "I go with him." "I can go." "I like the tape recorder." "I'll ride in the Chevy." "I never rode in one of those things." "It's not too comfortable in here." "Yeah, it doesn't even have a heater..." "Slows it down." "Holy shiiiit." "Come on, man, you can do it." "Pull it up." "Come on!" "What are you trying to do, blow my mind?" "Everything fell apart off..." "my job, my family." "Everything." "I had this job as a televivion producer and I..." "I don't wanna hear about it." "What do you mean you don't want to hear about it?" "It's not my problem." "What are you doing for?" "I get nervous around this part of the country." "Have you seen her around?" "Who?" "The girl." "You know.Higgens...whatever her name is." "No." "You know where I get a plate?" "I don't want to be left out in the cold, you know what I mean?" "I don't want to be from out of state." "All right, let's try it again." "Put it in neutral." "Ok, start it." "That's right, push the ." "Hey, put it in first." "Oh fuck, I can't do it." "Shut your eyes." "This is first," "This is second third," "Fourth, you'll never use it." "Reverse." "That's neutral." "Is this a game?" "I don't know?" "Not yet." "You try it." "You're right, you can't do it." "I can do this." "Must be saturday." "We'd better get GTO together." "What's happening?" "The town woke up." "We'll meet you on the south of town, on the dirt road." "OK, give me my shirt." "Hi Sir, can I help you?" "Yeah, I need a carburator rebuild kit for a 970 GM barby jet." "Allright sir." "Yeah, we got'em sir." "6,95 plus tax." "You pop your tires with liquid rosin." "Did you fix my leak?" "Yeah but that's artificial traction man, how can they..." "You mean your car?" "My car that's the thing you get into to go from one place to another." "It takes a shorter time..." "They fixed it." "We'd be B class, that's we get down in the mid's 10." "I'd just like to know one thing, are we still racing or what?" "I got speed to think about." "I'd like a hamburger and a Alka-Seltzer." "We're broke." "Broke, what you mean?" "No bread, we got to get some competition." "Oh good." "That's a problem." "Howdy." "Howdy." "Say my buddies and I were wondering where you might be from." "Well we're passing through." "Passing through..." "Well, what do you mean by that?" "Going to Tenessee." "Tenessee?" "That's a piss-poor state I've ever seen." "I work with these boys I'm their manager." "We race that 55 Chevy Sedan outside." "We heard there's a good race track right around Memphis." "They're racing that Chevy out there." "We got one of the best tracks in this part of the country." "Right by the state line." "We got some boys that would shut you down no problem." "Ain't that right boys?" "Right." "We'll make it." "Be sure that to do." "Say you wouldn't be hippies wouldn't you?" "No sir..." "I take care of these boys myself." "They're hometown boys," "Charles married to Mary over there, and Davis is his brother." "We're big family, but...we know how to keep together, know what I mean?" "Yeah." "Well, sure did talk to you." "Sure did see you." "Yeah, you'll make a damn car here." "We'll do it." "Allright." "One of them Dodge Challenger, let them go by." "Not today." "Are you allright?" "I'm okay but I'm scared, real scared." "His neck is broke." "He was trying to pass this other car you see." "He came around that curve there, on the wrong side of the road." "Nothing I could do." "He just kept coming up, the damn fool." "The goddamn fool." "I couldn't..." "Whoa, big fellow easy now, nothing to be afraid of." "Appreciate it." "No trouble." "How far you going?" "East." "Well, I can take you 200 miles." "I'm going up to Memphis to run a few of my cars." "Couple of Cobras and a Camarro." "Should do OK." "It doesn't matter." "Beg pardon?" "What do we have?" "30, 40 years?" "You don't exactly read me right." "It's not that I give a shit." "I'm a little caper of my own." "I believe everything that you say, man." "Listen, you don't have to put me on." "I'm getting sick and tired of creeps getting in off the road and putting me on." "What you say?" "You said something, you might as well tell me what you said." "I said stop the car." "What do you mean stop the car?" "I mean take your foot off the gas and pull over." "I just want to get off this machine." "I pulled something in my neck." "But if that's all we got we're in good shape." "I got to check the points and the valves when we get there." "Also the jets and the carbs." "Going to Palm Grove." "Ten Mile long." "Going to the graveyard." "Glad to help you out ma'am." "Going to the graveyard." "Her folks buried there." "Both of 'em killed on a saturday night." "Out of state." "Well yes ma'am I'm driving through to Florida." "I bought my mother a house down in St Petersburg, and I want to get down fix it up before she gets there." "City car." "Well it could be a city car or a country car ma'am." "But as long as folks are around." "City car is what killed them." "I'm sorry ma'am." "City car is what killed them." "Where to?" "Around the block." "I think there's someone following us." "Don't get disturbed." "Where would Harry run off to?" "He's setting up some kind of grudge race somewhere." "He's crazy." "This man won't even qualify." "Well, he's been pretty weird lately." "See you all up at Vic's Tavern after I shut down Old Sam." "Good luck." "We'll be in D.C tomorrow after dinner." "I set it up." "We're going against the 'vette." "I put up the tools against 300$." "I got to check the valves." "She's running fine." "Beautiful." "After D.C we'll go on down to Florida." "They got some nice beaches down there." "I got a good lead on them." "Ain't gonna catch me now." "Take the pinks then we'll go to New-York." "Right?" "Right." "The tire stand by out of the hole." "I barely got him." "Where's she?" "They split." "Let's go!" "Don't matter, we don't want to go in anyway." "Come on." "Ok, she's gonna burn you." "We got time for a quick bite." "Then we'll go on." "It doesn't matter where." "As long as we got time we can rip off a quick piece..." "Oh no, forget what I said but I'm crazy about you." "Here's where we got to be," "We'll go to Florida." "We'll lay on the beach and we just can't get enough." "Let all the scars heal." "Then we'll go to Arizona." "Always warm." "The roads are straight." "And we'll build a house." "Yeah we'll build a house..." "Cause if I'm not grounded pretty soon I'm going into orbit." "Easy." "Take it easy man, you're gonna kill us." "Baby?" "Let's take some food, I'm falling asleep." "Food, breakfast." "Champagne, caviar." "Chicken sandwiches on the glass." "No, Bacon eggs coffee toasts, jelly." "And tee." "May be we'll go to chicago." "I got some connections in Chicago that are out of sight." "I don't wanna go to Chicago." "That's cool." "We'll check out New-york." "We passed them five miles back." "Where?" "I said where?" "It's gonna take a long time." "You have to pull over." "They're at a diner on the right side of the road." "Shit!" "Figured we where going to Colombus Ohio?" "A man's got some parts up there he wants to sell real cheap." "No good." "This is a bitch of a car." "Yours ain't bad either." "What you got underneath?" "That's a worthy to find out." "See ya." "Make it a hundred." "Were you guys, racers?" "You got a great set of wheels here." "How far are you going?" "New-York city." "Got ten days leave." "Well you're in luck." "I can take you all the way." "What's this 390 Horse?" "Yeah 390." "I won it flat out." "I was driving a '55 stock Chevy across the country and I got into a race with this G.T.O." "Pink slips." "I beat the G.T.O by 3 hours." "Of course the guys in the G.T.O couldn't drive worth a damn." "I tell you one thing..." "There's nothing like building up an old automobile from scratch and wiping out one of these Detroit machines." "That gives you a set of emotions that stay with you." "Know what I mean?" "Those satisfactions are permanent."