Racecar legend Robert "Junior" Johnson dead at 88

[whitehall]

Junior Johnson won over 50 NASCAR races and another hundred as an owner operator. President Reagan took heat for pardoning Johnson for a moonshine running conviction while Jimmie Carter was praised for pardoning rich heiress Patty Hurst who was convicted for bank robbery and murder.

 

[rightwinger]

I remember seeing him race when I was a kid

 

[whitehall]

The gigantic NASCAR conglomerate had it's origins in souped up moonshine runners in the South in the late 40's and 50's. Johnson sadly is probably the last of them.