Charming Jones, escorted across the west by a naive, slow-witted cowboy, ‘Handsome Stranger’, has to make it from the Train Station to her ancestral homestead to collect her inheritance. And old cowboy, ‘Cactus Jack’, is hired to rob them when they leave town.
The film’s story focuses on Cru Jones, a small-town hero, who has the intensity and desire to win a BMX race called Helltrack where Cru is up against the big-monied sponsor’s champion Bart Taylor.
The Bandit and trucker pal Cledus goes on another cross-country run, transporting an elephant to the Republican National Convention in twenty-four hours. And, once again, Sheriff Buford T. Justice is on his tail.
Body Slam follows M. Harry Smilac, a down-on-his-luck music manager who is having a hard time attracting talent and booking gigs for his band, Kicks, as he decides to mix rock ‘n’ roll with heavyweight wrestling in a successful endeavor.
The Bandit, a maverick racecar driver, makes an 80,000-dollar bet to pick up a truckload of beer from Texas and return it to them within a specified amount of time within 28 hours. But it was illegal to sell the Coors brand east of the Mississippi River without a permit at that time.
Sonny Hooper, Hollywood’s greatest stuntman, deals with his relationship with the daughter of his mentor, a challenge from a young stuntman who idolizes him, and the egomaniacal director of his latest movie. He ultimately attempts to perform a record-breaking jump over a gorge in a rocket-propelled car.
The original characters from the first Cannonball movie race across the country once more in various cars and trucks.
A wide variety of eccentric competitors participate in a wild and illegal cross-country car race.