Never as much fun as the title and central premise promise: a thrill seeking girl comes between two drag racing buddies, one rich, one poor, climaxing in a drag race, with a hit and run investigation thrown in. The cars are sort of souped up jalopies, not that sexy looking but there is some decent racing footage.
It’s OK late 50s JD AIP exploitation – I couldn’t help wish it was made by New World in the 70s though, when maybe there would be a bit more sex and nudity to liven it up.
Fay Spain does little as the wild girl – she turns good very quickly, though John Ashley is fine as the bad rich kid. Steve Terrell is the good poor kid is a bit of a charisma by-pass The girl takes part in the drag race at the end – Roger Corman wasn’t the only director who did exploitation feminism. Frank Gorshin plays a support role – he does a sort of beat poet song number about drag strip girls which were so popular in 50s exploitation.
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