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"Moonshiners put additional time, energy, thought, and love to their autos than any racer ever will. Lose on the trail and you go back home. Lose with a load of whiskey and you simply go to prison." - Junior Johnson, NASCAR tale and one-time whiskey runner. Today's NASCAR is a family group sport with 75 million dedicated fans, which is growing bigger plus more mainstream each day. Part Disney, part Vegas, part Barnum & Bailey, NASCAR is also a multibillion-dollar business and a ethnical occurrence that transcends geography, class, and gender. But dark secrets lurk in NASCAR's recent. Travelling with the Devil uncovers for the very first time the true account behind NASCAR's faraway, moonshine-fueled roots and paints a rich portrait of the bright colored men who created it. Long before the activity of stock-car racing even existed, teenagers in the rural, Depression-wracked South got figured out that autos and quickness were tickets to a much better life. With few options beyond the plantation or factory, the best chance of escape was working moonshine. Bootlegging offered quickness, adventure, and wads of cash-if the motorists survived. Travelling with the Devil is the story of bootleggers whose empires grew during Prohibition and prolonged to prosper well after Repeal, and of motorists who thundered down dusty backside highways with moonshine deliveries, deftly outrunning national agents. The car of preference was the Ford V-8, the latest car of the 1930s, and ace technicians tinkered with them until they could soar across mountain highways at 100 a long way an hour. After preventing in World War II, moonshiners moved their skills to the rough, red-dirt racetracks of Dixie, and a countrywide sport was created. In this energetic period (1930s and '40s), three men with a enthusiasm for Ford V-8s - convicted unlawful Ray Parks, foul-mouthed mechanic Red Vogt, and crippled battle veteran Red Byron, NASCAR's first champ - emerged as the first stock car "team." Theirs is the violent, poignant account of how moonshine and fast autos merged to create a new sport for the South to call its own. Travelling with the Devil is a fascinating look at the well-hidden historical connection between whiskey working and stock-car racing. NASCAR histories will tell you who led every lap of each race since the first official race in 1948. Travelling with the Devil goes deeper to enable you to get the excitement, enthusiasm, offense, and death-defying feats of the crazy, early days that NASCAR has carefully covered from public view. Within the traditions of Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit, this tale not only uncovers a bygone period of a cherished sport, but also the type of the united states at an instant in time.
