When a legendary, sleazy used car salesman fakes his death, his unpolished and mechanically gifted daughter inherits his dealership – a front for a lucrative drug running scheme – and two new partners; her jilted step-mother and a mobster known as Pink.

SYNOPSIS:

No one chooses to sell used cars; especially CHARLIE TRIPP. Yet, here she is, slinging steel at Last Chance Autos after her dad, JACK TRIPP, goes up in smoke jumping a rocket-propelled car off a ramp during his “final sale” event.

But like anything you find on a used car lot, nothing is as it seems.

Jack’s exit, orchestrated with the help of his faithful secretary, SHEILA DAVIS, was another clever hand played by a lifelong gambler. After attempting to pay off his former friend, partner and current mob boss, ARTHUR “PINK” PINKERTON, with money siphoned from his lucrative drug running operation, Jack is given a deal he can’t refuse; leave town in 24 hours or his final trip will be a short drive off the Ambassador Bridge.

Unable to come to grips with his loser legacy or sitting out a hand, he leaves the dealership to the only two people he believes could keep it afloat while he figured out his next move; Charlie and his jilted second wife, THERESA DIXON.

But the inheritance is an albatross – not a gift – for both.

With a few too many miles on her youthful good looks and dragged down by her idiot son DONNIE, Theresa was looking for an easy cash-out, not a partner. She’s made a living on guys who were big wheels, but Jack took her for a ride and her only way off this dead-end street is hitching a ride with Pink.

Charlie had no intention of fixing the deteriorated dealership or her father’s mistakes, and even less interest in being involved with Theresa. But Pink’s plans to continue the profitable scheme he had with Jack is Charlie’s biggest problem, one she can’t say no to.

Dealt a losers hand and spun out by the return of TEDDY, her lifelong friend and secret crush, Charlie is patched up by her mentor, GARY, and he lays out the rules of the road ahead: play for keeps, and cheaters break the rules, winners make them.

With both hands on the wheel, Charlie’s in the driver’s seat of not only her fate, but also that of the staff of Last Chance Autos, the only family she has ever known.

TIN CAN ALLEY