Driven to the Past: So Where Did It Start?
There’s been some off-and-on discussion on a couple of message boards I
frequent about just where stock car racing got started.
It all began when a very intelligent and history-conscious poster offered
the opinion that it was a myth that stock car racing began with bootleggers and
moonshiners in the southeast after World War II. He pointed out that it existed
in various other parts of the country for some years before that catastrophic
war.