Best friends and rivals JJ Sawyer (Evigan) and Cutter McCullough (Battrick) shared a lot of things: a love of racing and the beautiful Tammy (Eggert). But when Cutter is killed in a fiery car accident, JJ gives up racing for good. Seventeen years later, JJ returns home and rekindles a romance with Tammy, only to discover that Cutter is back from the grave in the form of his old car. Back to settle a score with his old rival, JJ and Tammy hit the road with the vicious and remorseless phantom car hot on their tail.