Though he had planned to hide his background as a racing mechanic, when he entered college, Dave gets involved with a girl who is building a low pollution car.
After the death of his mother and stepfather, sixteen-year-old Steve leaves New England to live in Alabama with his father, a fisherman he has never seen.
When unable to go to medical school as he had planned, Ken goes into the Army despite his feelings about not wanting to be in a position requiring him to kill and becomes a helicopter pilot assigned to evacuation of wounded men in Viet Nam.
Buford Hagen is granted $20,000 and a year's time to prove he can make more money by racing automobiles than by accepting his half of an inherited business.
Things are wild enough at the Ludwell School before Moose Hanrahan's arrival, but Moose's incredible size adds an entirely new dimension to school hijinks.
