
            Set in the mid-western town of Puckerbush on Halloween, Hoover Nielbold (Ron Howard) is a hell-raising teenager who is obsessed with fast cars, as well as local high school beauty Darlene Kurtz (Christopher Norris). Because of his numerous speeding tickets issued to him, Hoover is forced to get a job delivering rolls of paper towels around to local businesses to pay them off. Hoover's father is none other than local sheriff, Harry Nielbold (Warren Kemmerling), who he has a strained relationship with because of his carefree behavior. One day, Hoover and his friends arrive at the local race track one afternoon to see beer-guzzling racer Big Bubba Jones (Dave Madden) compete in a race. Since Darlene and her reluctant parents are attending, he thinks it would be a good idea to see her. After the race, Hoover runs into Jones polishing his winning trophy and tells Jones he is interested in becoming a racer, but Jones laughs it off saying he is better off watching races from the bleachers. When Jones is pulled away by his pit crew for an emergency, Hoover impresses Darlene by stealing Jones' race car, nicknamed Mabel.She, as well as the rest of Hoover's friends, get in and roar out of the track, with one of Harry's deputies in pursuit. The police car winds up crashing through the front paneling of a nearby Chinese restaurant and overturns. They then should decide to have some fun with the car for a while. Back at the sheriff's office, Harry is overwhelmed with the shock and outrage from the kids' concerned parents. He exasperatedly tells them that will have to wait inside the drunk tank and he will only set of parents at a time. Harry then puts out an all-points bulletin over the radio and strongly instructs his deputies to not shoot Hoover and his friends as they are not dangerous, just messing around. Soon after, the gang pulls onto a farm to pick up another one of Hoover's pals, Junior Hale (Peter Isacksen), who is laid up with a broken leg. Another deputy pulls into the driveway to block Hoover's path, causing both cars to completely obliterate the property, as well as the deputy crashing into a nearby mud bath, sinking his car. They later offer to give Mr. Lewis (Don Brodie) a ride, only to get chased by another deputy onto a field and having Lewis' alarmed wife call Harry's office accusing the kids of kidnapping her husband.Hoover continues more antics with the remaining deputies as the sheriff's office is crowded with more victims of the kids' horseplay. He then decides it would be best if he and Darlene dropped the rest of the gang off at one of their houses, as he thinks he and Darlene should leave town temporarily. They lay low at a house outside of town belonging to one of Darlene's friends, whose family are away on vacation in Honolulu. At this point, a fed-up Harry is forced to enlist the help of Jones and his fellow racing buddies to chase after Hoover. They track him and Darlene down at the house and go after the two through fields, mountain roads, and eventually down a steep ravine incline. Harry, who is in one of the now-disabled race cars, suggests they talk, but Hoover simply drives off. By now, Jones becomes very impressed with Hoover's driving and most of the deputies, tired of Harry, Hoover, and the whole situation, announce their resignations. As night falls, Hoover and Darlene arrive back in town, where they are greeted by all its citizens and label Hoover a local hero. They pull into the race track's parking lot and Darlene has a confesses to Hoover by saying she only liked him because he had the car. As she walks off into the night, Hoover kicks the passenger door in frustration, but Jones shows up and scolds Hoover for mistreating a lady (meaning Mabel). He tells Hoover to get into the driver's side of the car and they speed onto the track, doing a series of circle laps.
    

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