Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been quickly and expertly stripped. He chases down the cretins, who turn out to be six orphan children. He has no recourse to the law, for the corrupt local sheriff takes most of the proceeds of their thievery in exchange for not putting them in an orphanage.
Disliking their arrangement with the Sheriff they stow away with the race car driver, and he finds himself becoming a reluctant stepfather. However, the Sheriff doesn't take too kindly to losing a valuable source of income....