So the message I got from this film was

Cool people smoke, skip class, and do their best to lose their virginity before they graduate.

Your school may be liberal enough to have a woman teaching auto body shop but not enough to have any visible racial diversity.

Building a car in school with stolen parts for the purpose of illegal street racing has no consequences.

Adult supervision is for suckers.

It's pretty much a given that TV personalities are allowed to be creepy as hell with minors.

Don't be yourself and give into peer pressure as much as possible.

And finally once your best friend has finished modifying his car to showroom condition just steal it and it will fly. For no reason. Just as long as you do it in the middle of a huge musical number.