Story Overview

A dissolutioned ex-civil rights activist, his car maker friend and ex-autoplant worker and a woman activist lawyer rescue an old discarded 1939 German staff car, christened "Runner Up", rebuild it and enter the six wheeler in a grueling cross country auto race.

Themes and Setting

They also race against racism, violence, a devisive foe and ridicule in 1979 South Los Angeles and Compton, California.