Danger On Wheels (1940)

Director: Christy Cabanne
Stars: Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Peggy Moran

A driver is killed when an experimental race car using an oil-fueled engine blows up. Lucky Taylor, a stunt driver, devises a scheme to have a car equipped with the engine entered into a race, without race officials--or the engine designer's sassy daughter--finding out about it.