NASCAR was founded on moonshine-runners who outran law enforcement officials. The post NASCAR Faces Backlash Over ...

That allowed moonshine runners to outpace would-be arresting offices by slinging their machines through zigzaggy mountain roads, all while loaded down with hundreds of pounds of liquid weight ...

The automobile had made its way down into those rural communities and became the de facto mode of transport for bootleggers ...

Moonshine runners began to greatly improve their vehicles to evade the police. Those modifications led to the NASCAR's birth in 1948. "You had to have fast cars to haul your whiskey to the people ...

When you’re born in it, it never leaves you,” said Thompson, a West Michigan singer-songwriter, guitarist and frontman for Lynn and The Moonshine Runners. When he decided to take a stab at ...

Prohibition in the 1920s and 1930s contributed to the development of stock car racing in the U.S. And after prohibition, moonshine runners still needed to enhance their cars to evade authorities ...

Was North Wilkesboro Speedway home base for some moonshine runners after all? Speedway Motorsports Inc. officials have unearthed the possibility. During last week’s grandstand cleaning and ...

It was the time when drivers, especially moonshine runners or bootleggers, would compete against each other on roads in a show of pride while transporting illegal liquor. NASCAR founder and former ...

When America was fighting alcohol consumption with radical bans, bootleggers shoved moonshine liquor in fast ... a bunch of former "runners" (illegal alcohol transporters) got together to form ...