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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The automobile had made its way down into those rural communities and became the de facto mode of transport for bootleggers and moonshine runners. But to be truly effective, those cars needed to ...

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 ...