 Since Wally doesn t have his drivers license, busy Ward reluctantly gives Lumpy Rutherford permission to drive the Cleaver family car to an out of town track meet. But, in spite of Wally s promises to stay on the main road, troublemakers Lumpy and Eddie convince Wally to let them take a "shortcut" on the way home from the meet and the boys break down on a dirt road in the middle of the woods