Stroker Ace is a 1983 action comedy film, filmed in North Carolina and Georgia, about a NASCAR driver, the eponymous Stroker Ace, played by Burt Reynolds.
Stroker Ace is a popular race car driver from Waycross, Georgia, and according to dialogue, a threetime champion, on the NASCAR circuit. An allornothing man, he wins if he does not crash. He is arrogant and pompous, with no regard for the business side of his racing team. He also has an ontrack, seasonlong rivalry with ambitious young driver Aubrey James Parker Stevenson.When he runs afoul of his current sponsor, Jim Catty Warren Stevens of Zenon Oil, by dumping a load of wet concrete on him, he has to find a new one. Friedchicken mogul Clyde Torkel, along with his chauffeur, Arnold Bubba Smith, and newly appointed director of marketing and public relations, Pembrook Feeny Loni Anderson, a discovery and protege of producer Hugh Wilson, convince Stroker and his chief mechanic, Lugs Harvey, to sign up with him. ........
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