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The Continuing Saga of James "Jimmy Rock" Rogers

Bob Bryant, Jr. (Jimmy's close friend, member of The Rhythm Kings)

Bob “Speed” Bryant Jr., was a rhythm guitar player and singer in Jimmy Rogers’ first band The Rhythm Kings. Bob Jr is the son of legendary stock car racer, Bob Bryant, Sr.

Speed made his racing debut at Pine Notch Speedway because Bob Sr couldn’t drive due to an awful accident.

Speed’s great driving skills thrill the Pine Notch Raceway crowd in his debut race. Will the tires, spark plugs and other gear Bob Sr always handpicked for his race cars give Speed the edge he needs to win the race?

You’ll have to see the movie to find that out.

Shooting of Can’t Stop It, the movie begins in Statesville, NC in the spring of 2026. If you would like to be considered for one of the fifty roles in the movie, work behind the cameras, or provide a product or service to the production company please tell us here.

Speed, only seventeen at the time of his debut race wound up driving his dad’s race car, because two days before the big race, Bob Sr was working directly under the bell housing of a panel truck at Goldstein’s junkyard. The truck slipped off its blocks. The weight of the car fell right on Bob Sr’s face.

Red Rogers happened to be at Goldstein’s returning a part for his baby sister Louise “Lew” Perkins. Lew is David Perkins‘ Mother. David is Jimmy Rogers‘ cousin and best friend. David formed The Rhythm Kings.

David and his girlfriend Cathy Carlson die under suspicious circumstances near the end of act two in the movie.

Are their deaths an accident or did someone kill them?

You’ll have to see the movie.

Red dropped the part he was returning to Goldstien’s and began running toward the sound of Bob Sr’s screams. Will Red find the strength needed to single handedly lift the truck before it crushes Bob’s skull?

That’s right, see the movie.

Just before the race, with America The Beautiful playing over the PA system, Jimmy Rogers and Marie Scappelli kiss for the first time.

The lifelong friendship between Jimmy and Speed has to do with two facts. One known and one unknown. The fact we know: Speed’s father Bob Bryant, Sr was a pioneering champion stock car driver.

Al Goldstein hired Bob Sr to replace Red at Goldstein’s junk yard on Red’s recommendation. Red and Bob Sr had been friends since their High School days. Red left Goldstein’s to go to work at the Langford Factory. In the opening scene of the movie Red is fired at the factory for drinking on the job. In act two, this same factory burns to the ground.

Did Red torch the factory out of revenge? By now you know.

See the movie.

What we don’t know about the lifelong bond between Jimmy and Speed, has something to do with the relationship between Red and Speed’s Mother Angela Bryant. In the movie Angela sings “The Truth” and it is about “what we don’t know”. You could win prizes if you can figure that out at the Music Match Games.