The next morning, Bogg and Jeff hurriedly got ready. Each of them knew that they were going to have a busy, yet interesting, day ahead of them. Bogg was to stay close to Lee Petty and Jeff to Richard.

As they near the end of the stairs, they could smell bacon and eggs and coffee brewing. Richard met them at the bottom.

"Mornin', ya'll. Sleep okay?" the other boy asked with a wide smile.

"Yeah, we slept pretty good. I think yesterday wore us both out," Bogg told him.

They entered the kitchen as Lee Petty was dishing out the eggs onto plates. Bogg and Jeff sat down as well as Richard.

"Well, gentlemen, today's gonna be a busy day. Lots to do before we do a trial run," Lee said as he planted himself on the chair.

"What's a trial run?" Bogg asked Jeffrey.

"Just to make sure that the car's in working order before the race," the boy explained.

"Oh," Bogg took a bite of the eggs and was surprised at the different flavor. Lee smiled.

"Notice something, Phineas?"

"Yeah. It's got kind of a tangy taste to it,"

"That's Pops specailty. He puts salsa in his eggs," said Richard.

"Interesting," Bogg nodded and took another bite.

They were done with breakfast and dishes in less than an hour as they were excited about the day's events.

The conversation to the race track was light and airy, the boys talking about car racing and the men talking about women.

As they got the race track, Richard took Jeffrey to the cock pit. They had taken the car there the night before.

"What we have to do it today?" Jeff wanted to know. He knew that he and Richard did a lot of work yesterday, so he was interested in what needed to be done.

"Oh, basically cleaning the car inside and out. Doing little details we might have missed yesterday and so forth," Richard shrugged.

Jeffrey noticed that Richard thought the work was no big deal. But, to him, it was. Getting a chance to work with the future car racing legend was a HUGE deal! Jeffrey wished he had a camera, but then again, with all the travels he and Bogg did, if he had a camera for all of them, he'd run out of film quick!

"So, what you wanna do, Jeffrey? Detail the inside or the outside?"

"I'd say outside. I don't know much about the insides of cars," came the answer.

"Done deal. I'll show ya where the cleaning supplies are and we can get started."

"Okay," Jeffrey nodded.

Back in the 'powder room', Bogg and Lee were going over the last minute details of the trial run. Bogg had no idea there was so much to do with car racing, but then again, this was his first time.

"How fast do you actually drive on the track?" Bogg wanted to know.

"Oh, I'd say about two hundred miles an hour, maybe faster. Got no copers to chase us!"

Bogg laughed at Lee's comment.

"Would you like to drive?" Lee asked.

Bogg held up his hands. "Oh, no! I don't really like cars, let alone drive 'em. When I do, it's mostly cuz I HAVE to."
Lee nodded understandably. "I understand you there. Tell you what. You can hold the time watch while I do the trial run,"

Bogg agreed. "I guess that'll be okay. Can't do any harm doing that!"

Lee laughed and slapped Bogg on the shoulder. "No, ya sure can't!"

Bogg and Lee left the building to see what Jeffrey and Richard were up to. Richard had just taken Jeffrey to the pantry where the cleaning supplies were at.

"Hi ya, kid. Having fun?" Bogg put an arm around Jeffrey. The big brown eyes looked up at him and they nearly glowed!

"Bogg, this is great! I'm gonna help Richard clean the car while does the inside detailing!"

"That's great, kid."

Bogg leaned towards Jeff and the boy knew that meant some serious talking.

"Jeff, the omni's still red. I still haven't a clue what's going on,"
Jeffrey sighed. "Don't look at me, Bogg. I don't know, either. As far as I know, Richard is STILL gonna race for a living,"

"Well, maybe something's gonna happen later. Or, maybe it might not have to do with the Petty's at all,"

"Guess we'll just have to wait and see,"

"Yep," Bogg nodded.

"So, you two ready for some serious work?" Lee asked as he and Richard came back.

Jeffrey and Bogg were so into their conversation, that it was obvious to them hat Lee and Richard had left.

"Yeah!" Jeffrey nodded.

"Okay," Lee chuckled. "Phineas and I will see you two in about two hours,"

"Be carefull, kid." Bogg whispered.

"You, too, Dad." Phineas smiled when Jeff said that. He had almost forgotten that Jeff was his son!

The four men went their seperat ways. Jeffrey couldn't believe how dirty that car was! He used two buckets of water before he finnished the first side and he still had a ways to go. Jeff was thankful it was a nice and warm day. He was sure to be soaked by the time he got done!

Richard worked on the tires, the engine and the inside of the car. He noticed something was missing on the dishboard and sighed.

"Jeffrey, I gotta go to the pantry. It might take me awhile, so if Pop comes back before I'm back, tell him, will ya?"

Jeff nodded. "Sure thing, Richard."

Richard turned to look at him. "By the way, since we're now friends, you can call me Rick."

Jeff's face lit up. "Really?"

Richard nodded. "You bet,"

"Then, you can call me Jeff,"

"It's a deal," Richard smiled and left.

It seemed that Richard had been gone quite awhile when Lee and Bogg got back. Jeff was soaked to the skin, but the grin on the boy's face told Bogg he was enjoying every minute of it!

"Where's Richard?" Lee asked, concerned in his blue eyes.

"Oh, he went to the pantry. He did say it might take him awhile,"

Lee sighed. "I hope he didn't leave you here to do all the work,"

"Oh, no, sir! I'm doing the outside detail and he's doing the inside. He might've seen something missing and went to get it,"

Lee nodded. "Could be,"

"Lee, if we're gonna get this thing done, we'd better do it now." Bogg said. He was anxious to know WHY the omni was still blinking red.

Bogg and Lee left Jeffrey to finnish up the cleaning process. He looked at the hood of the car and tried to figure out how he was going to climb up it. He didn't really want to get the benders dirty again by stepping on them, so he climbed onto the opened window and got ontop that way.

Jeffrey hadn't noticed Lee coming out and getting in the car. Suddenly, he heard the car start!!! He yelled, but he knew that Lee didn't hear him. Knowing how loud it was outside, Jeff can just imagin how loud it was inside.

He threw the rag down to the ground and clinged for dear life of the hood and braced himself.

The car sped to the race track and Jeff closed his eyes as the wind became fierce.

"Bogg!!!!!!!!!!!!!" He hollered, knowing full well that his father wouldn't be able to hear him. He kept his eyes shut from the wind and his hair.

Jeff could feel his hands trying to let loose, but he gripped tighter. The wind was strong and stinging his face and arms.

"Bogg..." he cried out.

Back at the dugout, Bogg opened up the omni. It turned green. Great, he thought. Now I can get Jeff and we can get back to headquarters.

He looked around to find his son. Richard was just coming back from the pantry.

"Richard, do you know where Jeffrey is?"

Richard shook his head. "No, sir. I saw the car gone and when I didn't see Jeff there, I thought he was with you,"

"No, he's not with me."

They both at that point heard the car speeding around a corner and turned to face it.

"Why's Pop driving it? I wasn't done..."

Bogg's sky blue eyes widened in fear. "I think that's Jeff ontop of the car!!!"