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21st December 2019
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: In the middle of Missouri.
Posts: 11,750 Sportster/Buell Model: 883 custom Sportster/Buell Year: 2004 Sportster/Buell Model #2: FXST Softail Standard Sportster/Buell Year #2: 2003 Other Motorcycle Model: FLSTF Fatboy Other Motorcycle Year: 1999
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R.I.P. Junior Johnson
Junior Johnson, moonshiner turned NASCAR legend, dies at 88
Farming was a staple of the Johnson household, but so was the manufacture and high-speed transport of untaxed whiskey. Junior Johnson quickly became involved in both family businesses, sharpening his skills as a driver with his fearlessness in distributing liquor in hopped-up cars.
“The good whiskey runners were kind of cocky about it, like good race drivers,” Johnson told the Associated Press in 1991. “I guess I was pretty cocky.”
Legend has it that Johnson was never caught on the road. He was convicted of moonshining in 1956 after authorities staked out the family still. President Ronald Reagan pardoned him on Dec. 26, 1986. “No maybe about it. Best Christmas gift I ever got,” Johnson told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2007. Johnson now sells moonshine legally under the Midnight Moon label.
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 I spent most of my money on women, whiskey,and motorcycles. The rest, I just wasted.
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21st December 2019
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XL FORUM TEAM MEMBER
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Webster, NY
Posts: 4,149 Sportster/Buell Model: XL 883/1200 Hugger Sportster/Buell Year: 1995 Sportster/Buell Model #2: 11 RK
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One of the originals! A true good ol boy.
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21st December 2019
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XL FORUM TEAM MEMBER
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: In the middle of Missouri.
Posts: 11,750 Sportster/Buell Model: 883 custom Sportster/Buell Year: 2004 Sportster/Buell Model #2: FXST Softail Standard Sportster/Buell Year #2: 2003 Other Motorcycle Model: FLSTF Fatboy Other Motorcycle Year: 1999
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I once saw an interview where the interviewer asked. Out of all the cars you drove, what was the fastest car you ever drove? Johnson was dead serious and said it was a moonshine car.
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21st December 2019
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Chief Know It All
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Join Date: Apr 2019
Posts: 426 Sportster/Buell Model: Sportster Sportster/Buell Year: 1997
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I got the chance to meet and have a few words with him years ago at Bristol Motor Speedway.
He is a very soft spoken man and humble in every meaning of the word.
Junior will be greatly missed.
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21st December 2019
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Air-cooled Forever
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Dakota Territory
Posts: 3,042 Sportster/Buell Model: XL 1200 C Sportster/Buell Year: 2006 Sportster/Buell Model #2: (Prev.Own)XLH Milw.Spec. Sportster/Buell Year #2: 1981
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His Legend lives on!!
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21st December 2019
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XL FORUM TEAM MEMBER
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 11,892 Sportster/Buell Model: 1200R Sportster/Buell Year: 2005 Other Motorcycle Model: 5 bikes and 1 quad
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Yes, Junior will be greatly missed. His contributions will certainly live on.
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22nd June 2020
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Senior Custom Bike Builder
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Northern Colorado
Posts: 2,550 Sportster/Buell Model: XLCH Sportster/Buell Year: 61 Other Motorcycle Model: Superglide Other Motorcycle Year: 74
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I always liked this:
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