Charlie

Charlie rides a 1954 Panhead Harley Davidson, owns a 1952 Chevrolet pickup, and listens to 45 and 78 records on a 1948 Silvertone record player. His hair is cut in a ducktail, he wears a t-shirt with a pack of Camel cigarettes rolled up in the sleeve, and denim jeans that are cuffed over black motorcycle boots, and a studded leather jacket embroidered with a white eagle on the back. In his pocket is a metal can opener he carries to open Lone Star beer bottles ... his favorite brew. Charlie works at an automotive wrecking yard and makes money on the side racing his hopped up motorcycle. Life is good and he intends to marry a local girl he has fallen in love with. But his plans go awry when his boss shuts down the salvage yard and he loses his job. The biker is evicted from his home and worse, he gets arrested after trying to stop a co-worker he befriended, an older man who gets drunk and shot down by police after making threats with a pistol. Charlie needs money to get his life back together and does it the only way he knows how: he challenges a rival to a dangerous high speed midnight race down Highway 101.