Most famous for being a moonshine runner who helped to start NASCAR, he is recognised as he first "team" owner in stock car racing.
The police recommended the moonshine runner whom they had chased many times and caught only once.
Legend has it that moonshine runners would take bootlegged liquor in oak kasks and would hide it in old 5 mile lake.
NASCAR, as a national sport, had finally arrived after years of moonshine runners.
It seems only natural that tales of high-speed chases would encourage bootleggers to test their mettle against fellow moonshine runners in weekend races.
These cars became known as "moonshine runners" or "'shine runners".
Many early NASCAR drivers were moonshine runners.
And beer is both the sponsor and the legal beverage of choice in a sport built by legendary moonshine runners.
Nascar might not exist had moonshine runners in the Southeastern United States not gathered on weekends to race their souped-up cars.
Kingston Pike is mentioned in the song The Ballad of Thunder Road as the location where a young moonshine runner died in a car crash.