Weirdly enough, Arnie has stopped using his eye glasses. Dennis also notices a subtle change in Arnie, as he seems to be more assertive. However, it's not only about being against parental control. This was the first time when Arnie stood up to his parents. Over the next several weeks, Arnie begins working on Christine whenever he has a bit of free time after school.
Arnie decides to take it to a local junkyard garage run by an irritable middle-aged man named Will Darnell (Robert Prosky) for storage.
However, his parents refuse to have it parked in their driveway. Arnie angrily shouts back that throughout his life, they haven't allowed him to have something he truly wants, and that he is dead-set on keeping Christine. Once at home, Arnie's overprotective parents angrily start pestering him for having spent his money on a car without consulting them, and especially one in Christine's wrecked condition. The current owner also tells Arnie that the car has a name: Christine. The owner, George LeBay, tells the story of the car: he inherited it from his dead brother, Roland. In spite of everything, Arnie falls in love with this car. only now it's dirty, gritty, broken, with pieces peeling off or falling apart. Supposedly, this is the same vehicle that we saw on the Detroit assembly line. Arnie notices a used Plymouth Fury with a placard announcing "SOLD". Arnie and Dennis start their way back to their homes. When both Arnie and Dennis tell the shop teacher that Buddy had a switchblade in his possession when he teased Arnie, it looks that the only consequence will be bad for Arnie, as Boddy announces he will take his own back pretty soon. Today, Buddy stamps on Arnie's sack-lunch and also breaks his glasses. Dennis tries to stop the bullies, but he can't be all the time checking on weak Arnie.
During shop class, Arnie is bullied by several students led by Buddy Repperton (William Ostrander). Dennis is a football player, who still befriends Arnie and tries to stand up for him. Arnie is clumsy, and his black-rimmed glasses characterize him as being nerdy. Arnie and his best friend Dennis Guilder (John Stockwell) are going to their school, as usual. Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon) is a meek teenager who spends his weekends playing Scrabble with his parents (Christine Belford and Richard Darnell), who still treat him as a child. Present day, Septemin Northern California. Another factory worker takes a seat inside the vehicle he will be found dead afterwords. During the process, this particular red car is being fussed about by one factory worker who has his hand injured when the vehicle's hood comes down on it. Among the rather plain-colored vehicles, one of them stands out: a bright-red one. We are inside a car factory where numerous Plymouth Fury's are being assembled.
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