Hot Rod Racers #6

When Flip Farnsworth arrives at the bus depot to pick up his friend Motors' cousin Wellington, he finds the passengers trapped by a jammed door—and discovers that Wellington is a massive 665-pound giant who barely fits through normal spaces. As Flip helps rescue the enormous man and deals with Wellington's larger-than-life personality, he realizes this trip is going to be anything but the simple errand he expected.

When two rowdy students mock Miss Willet's modest Falcon, her colleague Mr. Goffe devises a scheme to teach them a lesson—secretly souping up her car with a powerful V8 engine to transform the unassuming sedan into a genuine hot rod. Miss Willet reluctantly agrees to the plan and challenges the cocky drivers to a drag race at the local airstrip, where her newly turbocharged Falcon finally gets its chance to prove what it's really got under the hood.

Tommy "Thumbs" Down, an 18-year-old who trusts too easily, falls victim to a smooth-talking used car salesman named Honest Charley, purchasing a lemon of a '59 Edsel without even test-driving it. When the motor fails just miles later, Tommy and his friend Clint Curtis return to demand answers—only to discover that Charley's promises don't hold up when money's on the line. What unfolds is a clever scheme to turn the tables on the dishonest dealer.

A quiet bank clerk named Cyril Soames thought he was in for a sedate afternoon when he accepted an invitation from Lena Manners to go for a ride—only to discover she's a competitive race driver who pilots her Corvette at breakneck speeds through a mountain rally. Humiliated when a hotrodder suggests he's too chicken for the racing scene, Cyril decides to become a hot rodder himself, purchasing a high-performance Ford and throwing himself into the sport with surprising dedication. But as his racing ambitions heat up, he'll learn that his newfound passion for cars and speed might just be costing him something equally important.