Forever immortalized by Tom Wolfe's short story "The Last American Hero is Junior ... me a-haulin." Johnson will tell you with a straight-on, dead-level look that Stock Car racing was a comedown ...

Junior Johnson had a very sharp-looking car for the 1963 Daytona 500, but he and car owner Ray Fox suffered disappointment over a bad distributor that dropped them out of the race on lap 26.

Junior Johnson, a stock-car racing giant whose career spanned the ... RELATED: Junior Johnson’s life in photos Johnson’s earliest aspirations were first aimed at a different professional ...

1965 -- 05/08/1965 Junior Johnson__Charlotte Observer File Photo Observer file photo His first stock-car race came by chance, NASCAR said, citing North Wilkesboro Speedway founder Enoch Staley.

(Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images) Getty Images JOLIET, Ill. — Martin Truex Jr.’s race-winning car and Jimmie Johnson’s car both failed the Laser Inspection Station twice after Sunday’s race at ...

Bootlegging was, rather, a night job, and actually racing the cars for prize ... and winning driver Junior Johnson (R) hold the Daytona 500 winner’s trophy. (Photo by ISC Images & Archives ...

Forever immortalized by Tom Wolfe's short story "The Last American Hero is Junior ... me a-haulin." Johnson will tell you with a straight-on, dead-level look that Stock Car racing was a comedown ...

Robert Glenn “Junior” Johnson ... 1977 and 1978 with Johnson. “He could drive a moonshine car and he could drive a race car, too.” Johnson liked to race up front, said Yarborough, who ...