Before there was Nascar, there were Moon runners. A guy with a souped up car with a 200-gallon moonshine tank in the back if his car. He drove his coupe at neck breaking speeds through the twisty mountain roads to deliver the moonshine to buyers. It was usually delivered at night and with the police or revenuers waiting for him. Evading the roadblocks and outrunning the chase was all part of a day’s work to a moonshine runner. They say that most of all the racecar divers were involved in bootlegging. That’s how most of them were able to afford the fastest and the most expensive machines. They ran moonshine down the twisty back roads and through the mountains to the people during the prohibition. Wilkes County products were delivered throughout …show more content…
Regional offices are located in New York City and Los Angeles, with international offices in Mexico City and Toronto. Owing to Nascar’s Southern roots, all but a handful of Nascar teams are still based in North Carolina, especially near the city of charlotte. In the 1920s and 30s, Daytona Beach became known as the place to set world land speed records, supplanting France and Belgium as the preferred location for land speed records, with 8 consecutive world records set between 1927 and 1935. After a historic race between Ransom olds and Alexander Winton in 1903, the beach became a Mecca for racing enthusiastic and 15 records were set on what became the premier location for pursuit of land speed records, Daytona Beach had become synonymous with fast cars in 1936. Drivers raced on a 4.1-mile course, consisting of a 2.0 mile stretch of beach as one straightaway, and a narrow blacktop beachfront highway, State Road A1A, as the other. The two straights were connected by two tight, deeply rutted and sand covered turns at each end. The repeal of Prohobition in 1933 dried up some of their business, but by then Southerners had developed a taste for moonshine, and a number of the drivers continued running shine, this time evading the revenuers who were attempting to tax their operations. These races were popular entertainment …show more content…
The Daytona area was a gathering spot for racing enthusiasts; France became involved in racing cars and promoting races. After witnessing how racing rules could vary from event to event and how dishonest promoters could abscond with prize money, France felt there was a need for a governing body to sanction and promote racing. He gathered members of the racing community to discuss the idea, and nascar was born with its official incorporation in February 1921. Nascar held its first strictly stock race on June 19, 1949, at the Charlotte Speedway in North Carolina. Some 13,000 fans were on hand to watch Glenn Dunnaway finish the 200 lap race first in his Ford, however Jim roper collected the $2,000 prize after Dunnaway was disqualified for illegal rear springs on his race car. In the early years of nascar, competitors drove the same types of race cars that people drove on the street. They were most Buicks, Cadillac’s, Oldmobiles, among others with minimal