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 😁
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.
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.
Pretty sure stock cars started with Ford with their Model T.
Capitalism is why. There was a market for moonshine and high profit margins for the risk.
Money is usually the motivation
Seems a bit reductive. Everything boils down to money if you're content to look no higher up the hierarchy of needs.
Capitalism isn't market forces existing at all.
Capitalism is directing and manipulating those forces towards accumulation and endless growth, following an ethos of "more is more and more is inherently good"
I suspect that there would be a shitload more anticapitalist people in the world if everyone was aware that markets and capitalism aren't synonyms..
Capitalism is not equal to smuggling or free markets. Capitalism means the private ownership of the means of production, and a market economy is possible under other systems.
Yee haw, fuck the law.
Raise Hell, Praise Dale
Reminds me of Bikers with a rebel lifestyles being the ultimate bootlickers
If they could only be a little quieter outside my house.
Why run though? You got a car, drive mofo!
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