Pedal to the Metal: Rewatching Six Pack
Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been quickly and expertly stripped. He chases down the miscreants, who turn out to be six orphan children. He has no recourse to the law, for the corrupt local Sheriff takes most of the proceeds of their thievery in exchange for not putting them in an orphanage. They are charming rogues, who are in turn charmed by him. Disliking their arrangement with the Sheriff, they stow away with him, and he finds himself becoming a reluctant father figure. Thanks to their enthusiasm and incredible mechanical know-how, he begins to make a name for himself on the racing circuit. But the Sheriff doesn't take kindly to losing his extra income.
Movie Review from 1982 Reprinted In The New York Times
Six Pack TV Pilot Info on IMDB
Trivia Tidbits:
This was 14-year-old Anthony Michael Hall's film premiere.
The race at the end of this movie uses real race footage from the NASCAR Coca-Cola 500 Race, held at the Atlanta Motor Speedway in 1982.
Burt Reynolds turned down the lead role of Brewster Baker.
Kenny Rogers was 43 when he starred in this movie. It was his first, and only, top-billed movie role.
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