NASCAR can trace its roots back to the post-Prohibition era, when bootleggers would "runmoonshine." Moonshine, a home-distilled and especially strongalcohol, wasn't illegal, but the people who made it didn't want to pay the requiredtaxes. So they builtcarswith strongsuspensionsand bigenginesto...
It's moonshine country out here, Wilkes County shine, America's most wanted. Fifty years ago these woods held two lanes to freedom for good ol' boys hauling lightning up and down Highway 16, as curvy as a centerfold and just as dangerous. The cars were modified, souped-up and bored-...
He commanded respect from the toughest drivers in the nation — the proverbial backwoods moonshine runners who fueled the early pool of race-car drivers. CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO FOX NATION "Well, let’s just say he ‘ran the show,'" NASCAR legend Richard Petty wrote in the ...