S1 Ep86: How Outlaws Invented Car Modding and Became Racing Stars

Past Gas

Donut Media

Leisure, Comedy, History, Automotive

4.9 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Today on Past Gas, how a band of outlaws helped bring stock cars to the masses. How did rum runners and bootleggers start modding their cars to outrun the cops? What’s the link between these backwoods speed freaks and modern day NASCAR? It’s a wild story you’re gonna have to hear to believe-- from high speed chases to deadly shootouts.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up? My name is Nolan. I'm from PastGas by Donut Media. We're an automotive history show.
0:04.8	This week, it's Santa's cold bag. We took all of our listener submissions that we've gotten over the years here
0:10.5	and we put them all into one episode. Little ideas that weren't long enough for a normal one.
0:15.0	We put seven ideas into one hour episode. This is super fun. A real grab bag of different
0:22.0	stories and letters from our listeners, maybe even you. So check out PastGas wherever you get your
0:29.1	podcast today, PastGas.
0:39.3	Lloyd say found himself lying in the dirt. He was bleeding badly. He looked over and saw blood
0:46.6	gushing from his brother's neck. They had both been shot by their own kin and he wanted to know
0:52.4	why. 12 hours earlier, he had just won the biggest stock car race in the sports short history and now
1:03.2	he was dying in a feud over moonshine. You probably know that alcohol was illegal in the United States
1:09.8	from 1919 to 1933 and era known as prohibition. You might even know that a group of bootleggers
1:16.6	went on to help found NASCAR. But the intertwined histories of moonshine and cars
1:22.4	goes a lot deeper than that. It was four redneck rum runners in particular that basically invented
1:28.4	engine mods and as a result brought both backwards hooch and stock car racing to the masses.
1:34.1	Who were they and how did their efforts to outrun the law turn into a modern day racing behemoth?
1:40.0	Grab a mason jar of white lightning and settle in because today on PastGas we're talking about
1:44.4	bootlegging and burnouts. This is the story of stock car racing's very first professional team.
1:59.2	Oh that's a fast car. No more than an inch car. I feel like I'm drunk off this just reading this.
2:08.2	Well hopefully you're not because it is 10 a.m. on a Friday morning. Well you have a problem.
2:19.5	This whole courtroom's got a problem. That just reminds me of when quarantine first started and like
2:27.2	for the first two weeks it was all like no one's going to stop me from having a glass of wine at 2 p.m.
2:32.9	I've got my robot. And then you gain 50 pounds. It got progressively worse from there.
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