Fast Cars and Intergalactic Speed Dating

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Richard Campbell has numerous problems.

First among them is Garth, his roommate and business partner. Together, they're launching RiGarTek, a start-up intended to bring more efficient solar power to the average consumer.

But Garth is on the very last of Richard's last nerves, and they're broke. Add to this the fact that Richard is still recovering from a nasty divorce, and...well, life isn't great.

Richard's main solace is his '72 Camaro. He takes her out to drag race on weekends, which is a great way to get his blood pumping and to relieve some of the stress he's been under...but one night, he returns from a race to find a stranger in his home.

A stranger with tentacles, who scarpers with Richard's life's work: the schematics for his revolutionary solar cells.

Richard nearly convinces himself that the tentacle-waving burglar is a figment of his imagination, but when he and Garth are nearly killed in their own front yard, they have to face the facts: a space age adventure has swept them up without their permission.

Their lives and the lives of many others are on the line, and Richard's not hero material.

...Or is he?