| Director | Don Siegel, Nadia Tass |
|---|---|
| Genre | heist film |
| Runtime | 99 min |
| Country | Australia |
| Budget | $2.3 million |
| Box office | $2.4 million |
18-year-old Danny Clark, a young man living in Footscray, a suburb of Melbourne, is looking to increase his cool factor in order to secure the affections of Joanna.
Danny offers to take Joanna out for a ride in a Jaguar as a way to impress her, but his actual vehicle is a 1963 Nissan Cedric which Danny knows is not 'cool'. In need of a Jaguar in a hurry, Danny decides to trade the Nissan Cedric for a more impressive car.
Gordon Farkas, a crooked used car salesman, tricks Danny into buying a 1973 Jaguar XJ6. The Jaguar engine, true to form, blows up. After a confrontation which culminates with Joanna leaving Danny, an investigation of the engine reveals it has been swapped by Gordon Farkas. Danny sets about seeking justice and winning back Joanna's affections.
Danny and friends trick Gordon while his car is parked in a multi-storey car park, and put the blown up engine in Gordon's Jaguar. Gordon, drunk, drives off without realising. He is arrested for going through a red light and for being drunk. Danny now has a perfect 4.2 l Jaguar to impress Joanna, which he does briefly when her parents are away for the weekend, until they return and surprise them with a new car for Joanna, and Danny flees.
Everything unravels when Gordon mistakenly believes that Joanna's father has stolen his Jaguar engine and steals that car in error, defacing it, later getting his comeuppance. Various car chases result in Gordon failing to catch Danny and his friends, as well getting violently beatin' up by Mr. Johnson's friends, and a postscript shows Gordon serving five years in Pentridge prison for 37 offences against the Motor Traders Act, then moved to Queensland intending to start a business there after his release, Danny and Joanna getting married later that year, and his friends in their ideal jobs in computing and car sales, While Danny's parents got their beloved Nissan Cedric back and Joanna's parents spent years avoiding them.