After her father's death, Judi Montgomery has only one memento, a forty-year-old car with a cranky disposition. Its persnickety personality threatens her job, forcing her to depend on the equally ornery mechanic, Bryce Halloway, to repair it. As the mechanical troubles become more frequent, Judi discovers Bryce to be a man parked in family tradition. Can some friendly sabotage help her shift him into a new gear?