Sinkhole unearths moonshine cave under North Wilkesboro Speedway
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backontrack
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Posted 12:18 pm, 04/03/2024
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You reckon that ol boy would meet us in the hospitality moonshine cave at the venue for counseling, Butch? Is them Christians aloud to go to the race cause of whatus found at the track or not, perhaps the car wrapped FF investment could serve as the pace car for wonst or something if anything goes at em and such.
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Foxnose
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Posted 12:05 pm, 04/03/2024
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backontrack
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Posted 11:36 am, 04/03/2024
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How bout you recommend us a good Christian counselor to help with such, Butch.
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Foxnose
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Posted 11:12 am, 04/03/2024
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You compulsive disorder concerning the FaithFest is evident, you need to seek help
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backontrack
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Posted 10:41 am, 04/03/2024
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Yeah, a feller which we affectionately call Butch is getting on my d*** nerves.
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Foxnose
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Posted 10:25 am, 04/03/2024
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You got a problem Backtrack
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backontrack
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Posted 9:35 am, 04/03/2024
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You younguns don't reckon they thought to put a stocked hospitality room under the Faithfest stage do you uns? Perhaps Trucker would spring for a VIP ticket to get a groupie pass if they's shine and weed and ol girls open to getting they cages rattled and such.
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DB Cooper
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Posted 9:16 am, 04/03/2024
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I had the song Thunder Road back in the day. Wore the needle out playing it. Tom Dooley, too.
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singer
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Posted 9:01 am, 04/03/2024
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1958 movie . 'Thunder Road" starred Robert Mitchum. Watch it. You'll hear about some Wilkes Co boys. Wilkes Co. was once called 'the moonshine capital".
Mithum sang the song 'Ballad of Thunder Road". It was a hit song, and the movie is really good for its time.
Let me tell the story, I can tell it all
About the mountain boy who ran illegal alcohol
His daddy made the whiskey, son he drove the load
When his engine roared they called the highway "Thunder Road" Sometimes into Ashville, sometimes Memphis town
The Revenuers chased him but they couldn't run him down
Each time they thought they had him his engine would explode
He'd go by like they were standing still on "Thunder Road" And there was thunder, thunder over "Thunder Road"
Thunder was his engine and white lightening was his load
And there was moonshine, moonshine to quench the devil's thirst
The law they swore they'd get him but the devil got him first On the first of April, 1954
A federal man sent word he'd better make his run no more
He said, "Two-hundred agents were covering the state
Which ever road he tried to take they'd get him sure as fate" "Son, " his daddy told him, "Make this run your last
The tank is filled with 100 proof, you're all tuned up and gassed
Now don't take any chances, if you can't get through
I'd rather have you back again than all that Mountain Dew" And there was thunder, thunder over "Thunder Road"
Thunder was his engine and white lightening was his load
And there was moonshine, moonshine to quench the devil's thirst
The law they swore they'd get him but the devil got him first Roaring out of Harlan, revving up his mill
He shot the Gap at ***berland and streamed by Maynardville
With G men on his tail light, road block up ahead
The mountain boy took roads that even angels fear to tread Blazing right through Knoxville, out on Kingston Pike
Then right outside of Bearden, there they made the fatal strike
He left the road at 90, that's all there is to say
The devil got the moonshine and the mountain boy that day And there was thunder, thunder over "Thunder Road"
Thunder was his engine and white lightening was his load
And there was moonshine, moonshine to quench the devil's thirst
The law they never got him 'cause the devil got him first
Law they never got him 'cause the devil got him first
(Thunder, thunder, thunder, oh)
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backontrack
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Posted 7:55 am, 04/03/2024
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We's thinking mornlikely a party tunnel complete with shine and such, ol girls which was open to getting they cages rattled mighta been extrie or something.
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Old School 1951
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Posted 7:33 am, 04/03/2024
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I have some knowledge about underground stills and making liquor. Not a lot, but some. I realize there are many more people on here that know much more than I do, but let me give you what little I know. First, Junior Johnson may have been a little crazy but he certainly was not stupid. He was naturally smart, street smart and experienced smart. He would never have built a still in such a public place. You do not make the liquor where you sell it. The main reason for going underground is so nobody knows where it is. Second, a good flow of good cool water is very helpful. You can smell mash from a distance and also smell the liquor for a good piece off. Materials like sugar have to be moved very discretely. The only underground that I know of was on Summers Cross Roads in the 50's and early 60's had a very elaborate venting system and liquor was piped a short distance from the still to get loaded. I do not know for sure what was under that grandstand but I seriously doubt it was an operating still. Maybe a storage area, maybe a drinking area, or something else but I don't think it was the still. I could be wrong
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backontrack
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Posted 7:06 am, 04/03/2024
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Our sources has seen where the internet is quothing Dale Earnhardt Sr as saying When we ran Wilkesboro back in '89, I rattled this ol girl's cage in the moonshine tunnel under the stands, on a show or in a article called Bangin Broads but them younguns cannot find the actual evidence that such was ever wrote or spoke before the ol boy expired. We's wondering if they's able to get thatun expunged from the record or if they's a actual ol girl in a cage getting rattled back in '89 or what.
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backontrack
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Posted 3:35 pm, 03/27/2024
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Why, was Jr a member of the G is for geometry club also?
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adamwl12
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Posted 3:11 pm, 03/27/2024
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Probably a little more to it than just for making moonshine.
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backontrack
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Posted 2:33 pm, 03/27/2024
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Junior Johnson, the Legend
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SmellySucks
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Posted 2:09 pm, 03/27/2024
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Biden crossed the Francis Scott Key bridge many times by rail to come to N Wilkesboro to drink Moonshine with Cornpop , he was a bad dude.
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antithesis
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Posted 1:52 pm, 03/27/2024
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For decades, rumors have circulated that historic North Wilkesboro Speedway was the site of a secret moonshine still. Now some Wilkes County locals may have more reason to say 'I told you so,' as a possible moonshine cave has been discovered underneath the concrete frontstretch grandstands.
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