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Topic	I just finished watching The Love Bug and have a question about racing.
captpackrat 12/08/19 5:57:52 PM #5:	It's because one of the first race tracks was at Daytona Beach, which used a stretch of beach as one straightaway and State Road A1A as the other, with two tight turns at each end. Stock car racing has its origins in bootlegging during Prohibition. Bootleggers and later moonshiners would modify their production model ("stock") cars to outrun the police and revenuers. By the 1940s, the moonshiners started racing with each other, which became a popular form of entertainment in the South. --- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, Minutus carborata descendum pantorum. <cite>captpackrat posted [p:931291507] in I just fin... [t:78237755]...</cite> <quote>It's because one of the first race tracks was at Daytona Beach, which used a stretch of beach as one straightaway and State Road A1A as the other, with two tight turns at each end. Stock car racing has its origins in bootlegging during Prohibition. Bootleggers and later moonshiners would modify their production model ("stock") cars to outrun the police and revenuers. By the 1940s, the moonshiners started racing with each other, which became a popular form of entertainment in the South. --- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, Minutus carborata descendum pantorum.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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