Federal Agent Once Confessed “Mechanical Miscarraiegs” Were No Match to NASCAR Outlaw Junior Johnson: “Those Guys Could Drive a Car Like You Wouldn’t Believe”

A big chunk of the reason NASCAR is so different from other sports and why fans are so personally and deeply connected to the sport is because of the way it all started, the fascinating history, the beginnings, the foundational personalities, of which perhaps none more so important and interesting as Junior Johnson.

Think about it, the guy was fast, like really, really fast, so fast, that even a Federal Agent swore by his speed.

Now, part of the reason why Johnson was so quick was obviously down to the car, their rides, which they didn’t hesitate twice in making them go even quicker. “We didn’t back down in doing whatever we could do to make ’em faster,” Johnson said according to Motortrend.

“You didn’t have no top end on ’em with a supercharger. That thing would just keep gettin’ up. It had the power to take it where the road was so narrow, you couldn’t imagine how fast that thing was a-runnin’.”

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Junior Johnson had even a Federal Agent astonished

Without a doubt, the moonshiners had a clear advantage over those behind their tall with their fast cars, something former federal agent Joe Carter also confirmed.

“The cars driven by treasury agents and other law enforcement officers were no match for the moonshiners’ cars. “I called the cars the government gave us ‘mechanical miscarriages,'” the former agent of the Federal Alcohol Tax Unit (ATU) said.

But as the saying goes, or maybe if not the saying, a dialogue from a movie, or if not even that, then the humble opinion of this author that goes, ‘A fast car is only as fast as the driver’. This was absolutely true for Junior Johnson, something again accepted and backed by Agent Carter.

“We lacked another component they had—the drivers. Those guys could drive a car like you wouldn’t believe. By the time they got to be 14 years old, they could outrun any officer I knew of,” he described.

“They learned how to drive and they knew every curve, though some of ’em got killed doin’ it.”

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