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Fri Dec 20, 2019 11:05 pm

NASCAR legend Junior Johnson dead at 88
Samuel Chamberlain
By Samuel Chamberlain | Fox News

Junior Johnson, the son of a North Carolina bootlegger who became one of the first superstars of NASCAR in the 1950s and 1960s, has died. He was 88.

NASCAR announced Johnson's death Friday. No cause was given, but a statement from the racing association said Johnson "had been in declining health and entered hospice care earlier this week."

"Junior Johnson truly was the �Last American Hero,'" said NASCAR Chairman and CEO Jim France, referencing the title of a 1965 Esquire magazine essay about Johnson by author Tom Wolfe. �From his early days running moonshine through the end of his life, Junior wholly embodied the NASCAR spirit.-- excerpt, rest at link above --

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Fascinating bit of American history. Bootlegging turned to NASCAR.

As immortalized by Bruce Springsteen:

James Dean in that Mercury '49
Junior Johnson runnin' through the woods of Caroline
Even Burt Reynolds in that black Trans Am
All gonna meet down at the Cadillac Ranch

I'm guessing they've all met now.