Most of the earliest NASCAR racers were moonshine runners: Fast, fearless outlaws running illegal liquor through the mountains of Georgia and the back roads of North Carolina and Tennessee.

In the definitive 1958 movie about moonshiners, "Thunder Road", a young Robert Mitchum ran ‘shine in a souped-up 1957 Ford. Well, as it turns out a 1957 Ford Fairlane built for the moonshine ...