That and it was prohibition so your moonshine operation was against the law.
One of my favorite songs from Jim Croce, Rapid Roy the Stock Car Boy, has a whole verse on this!
Rapid Roy, that stock car boy, He’s the best driver in the land He says that he learned to race a stock car By runnin’ shine outta Alabam’ Oh the demolition derby and the figure 8 Is easy money in the bank Compared to runnin’ from the man In Oklahoma City With a 500 gallon tank
1800l of shine would weigh more than most cars, what on earth was he driving?
Couldn’t tell you the exact make and model, but afair, prohibition was when American automakers first began making high performance cars, specifically because a lot of people needed something that was able to move a shitload of weight while still being faster than the cops.
The specific number in the song is probably just either artistic hyperbole for “a hell of a lot” or a number that fit the meter, though 😁
I suspect hyperbole. Cool song though.
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Actually it was bootlegging.
The underlying point is the same. Bootleggers were providing what the people wanted and cops were in the way because ACAB. That’s the core of it.
Same difference.
Yeah. And bootleggers run from the cops. Because fuck em
Also because they’d prefer to stay alive and free.
That’s true haha
Actually, there was a big culture in rural areas to just fuck with cops for fun, and the best way to avoid being arrested is to be faster than the cops.
Wasn’t the whole stock car thing started by shinerunners?
Yes, which is the entire point of the meme.
In that case, they were running from the police because they’d have gone to prison if they got caught.
Yes, that was never a question.
Breaking the law is illegal.
Pretty sure stock cars started with Ford with their Model T.
Yee haw, fuck the law.
Raise Hell, Praise Dale
Reminds me of Bikers with a rebel lifestyles being the ultimate bootlickers
Wellll there’s two types of bikers, there’s those that want to seem like rebels, and there’s meth dealers that will kill you. There’s also people who ride motorcycles that aren’t “bikers” too.
Totally! I did a ride along with a bunch of boomer bikers riding harleys while I rode my “crotch rocket”. Half were police officers. it was weird to be anti-establishment in our get up and watch the ride leader radio police to back off.
Totally agree on the meth bikers. They’re scary.
There’s an antique boat style here called ‘pirtuvene’, literally grain alcohol boat. These boats smuggled millions of liters of pure alcohol through the gulf of Finland from Estonia. Smugglers were gunned down, coast guard were gunned down, people were drinking more booze than ever and boat builders were doing good business both with the smugglers and the cops.
When people are digging to China, sell shovels
If they could only be a little quieter outside my house.
