I am the one who interviewed Charlie here in this video. I think it was in 2010, so I was only 13 years old. I had a deep appreciation for racing history, especially of the North Georgia area. Many of these old guys took me 'under their wing' so to speak as how many pre-teens were interested in old racing? Charlie was exceptional to me, not only here in this video but up until he passed. I was honored to have been a pall bearer at his funeral in 2016. Also, I totally understand that Charlie made this interview. But I just want to note this was probably the second time I had ever done any type of interview. It was a spur of the moment thing - "Here, go take this camera and talk to Charlie". I miss Charlie and dozens of others from his era. The stories that he and others could tell were unmatched. He was one of the biggest supporters to us at the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame here in Dawsonville. We still have a display case with some highlights of his accomplishments, and yes, we have had his 39' on display at various times before.
I was impressed with the questions you were asking as a young, whippersnapper. Really good job I thought. And Charlie seemed very patient. I probably could use more of him myself.
Great interview, even more impressive given how young you were at the time. It makes sad when I wonder how many other folks like Charlie passed without their story being preserved for posterity.
The Moonshine Festival is usually the third weekend in October. It just keeps growing each year. I saw a report once stating there had been 150,000 people there at one event. Never seen that many 40 Fords in my life.
Not only was Charlie a great hauler he was a short track legend in Georgia! Used to see him race at Lakewood and the Peach Bowl! Those were great days!
So, to recap, we're basically talking about a neck and neck race with the v8-equipped Feds, with a 200lb load of shine, on crap roads, at night, with leaf spring suspension, those weird little torsion shocks, crap headlights, *bias ply tires* and no pesky seatbelts or roll cages or sissy safety glass or padded steering wheels, at speeds over 100mph *while getting shot at*. Sweet baby jesus that sounds absolutely terrifying.
Papaw had a 40 springs stiff and load was what made it to Knox from the Mountains of NC he told me that 19E going down was the worst part brakes sucked and the trees where tight to the road ..W.S. Tucker R.I.P.
I had the pleasure of listening to to Charlie Mincey Buck Simmons. C L Pritchett tell stories about hauling moonshine and racing man you can’t get any better than those 3 Thanks for the video
What a cool guy and great video. I can sit and listen to these guys for hours the stories they got to tell. And I gave you a thumbs on your video by the way.
used to watch him race at Senoia Ga. speedway in the late 70's against Leon Archer #222, Mike Head #54, Roscoe Smith #44, Doug Kennimer #42, Charlie Bagwell #U2, Dub Meeler , Charlie Hughes etc. Great memories !
In 1991 I wrote the race reports for North Georgia Speedway in Springplace. I remember Mike Head and Charles Hughes as being front runners.whichever winner had the best story got the lead even if it was the mini stock class. All these guys weren’t just great competitors they were quite aware that their sponsors liked to see their names in print so after their race they would hunt me up to tell me of their trials snd tribulations in preparing for the race.
I remember hanging out at Mike Heads garage on Anvil Block Rd. outside Rex Ga. Working on his car and his cousin making everyone bologna sandwiches. If I remember correctly Mike Head was a stunt driver in several movies made in Ga. during the 70's.
Oh this guy is a piece of history! Way to go Charlie! Talking about getting a jump on the cops on Highway 9 which runs S/N through Dawsonville, then ditching on the backroads! Check your satellite maps, I can imagine that wow!
This reminds me of the time my grandfather told me about a moonshine run he did with a truck after Vietnam for his friend he met at war that lived in virgina to get a little extra cash but he never really talked about it because shortly after that happened he became a cop in nj never did it again he says the pay was so good he almost did another run.
My mother hauled moonshine in Nashville back in the day, when she was only 18. She was very pretty and prim and proper so she flew under the police radar. Back then she was Ramona Watkins; she would later become Ramona Burnett, the wife of a Nashville police officer. She also went on to become the country's first Weather Girl on WCPO in Cincinnati (like I said, she was very pretty), but before then she was poor after her father, a doctor, had died. So fifty dollars to drive a Chevy with "special suspension" in the rear to a specific alleyway, park it and lock the doors and trunk, sit through the movie in the nearby theater, and then drive the car (with a much-higher rear now) back home and park it, was an easy decision for her. This was around 1950, just before she went into television and met my father. She said that Chevy was a monster. At normal RPMs for normal street driving the engine sounded a little like it needed a new muffler, but nothing to attract police attention, she said. But once she punched it, it was like Godzilla banged his shin on a sharp object and all hell broke loose. The Local Boys chose her also because she could drive like a bat out of hell if the cops chased her, which they never did. This was put to the test much later in her life when, at ten years old, I was bleeding from a giant gash in my wrist made by a rusty cat food can lid when I was pushing down a bag of garbage into the garbage can outside. She drove her MGBGT sports car like a mad woman and got me to the hospital faster than an ambulance could have arrived at our house. It was serious Race Day Point Of View stuff, and damn exciting, even though I was also afraid of dying with that bloody washcloth wrapped around my wrist. She was one hell of a mother. Bought me a submachine gun for my high school graduation present (ATF Form 4'ed it to herself because I was not yet 21, and had to be with me whenever I fired it until I transferred it to myself later on) and a Smith and Wesson Model 29 .44 Magnum for my 19th birthday present. Thank goodness I was responsible enough! She wouldn't have if I hadn't been. Anyway, if you want to see my mother and father, they are featured in the book Cincinnati Television by Jim Friedman. She's listed as Ramona Burnett and he as Bud Chase (his Goyisher television name, since they didn't much like Jews in television back then.
Very nicely done young sir. It's good that you can respect your elders because they do have a lot to bring to the table that you know you may want to know and if they have and you just need to ask him. I'm almost 64 and my son is 42. I still know more about what he owns and drives but he's catching up quick because I simply don't care as much as I used to. But it is very nice when my son comes and asks me about an issue with his car and we can discuss it. That makes me feel useful and that is very special to this this old man. LOL thanks from Bob in Virginia USA
I went to school with a Mincey clan…never heard the name before or since….till this video. My buddy’s dad was a character! Reminds me of him seeing and hearing this fella…. I wonder if they were related.
Yes sir Charlie Mincey's vehicle is the real deal as Charlie is himself. A very good posting excellent questions and yes history as told by the folks that were THERE, great effort more posting . That 39 Ford was one of the finest old Henry produced. Down here in Australia in 2012 they are legends. In your part of the world GA Moonshiners and blockaders are also legends. 5/5
Yes...it would have been a Ford Flathead V8...some of those shine runners would soup up a Mercury or Lincoln Flathead because of the longer stroke on the motors ......I love how Mr. Mincey added the more heavy duty Lincoln gears....and a 2 speed differential to boot.... Love it....they were very innovative. ..
My uncle was a bootlegger and ran a taxi as a cover he was more low key selling only federal taxed bottles, always good to keep the feds out of the picture.
PS My mother, now past at 93, one night joined us with some wine. She got wound up and told us stories of her driving my uncle, her bother in-laws taxi. Running to Ohio for the bourbon and making the deliveries. Mom was a real hillbilly from a line of hillbillies dating from before the revolution. I guess it makes me one two.
ChannelNotFound Oh RIP Charlie. I was just wondering that when I saw this video was made a few years ago. Really great this little chat was captured for posterity. Mild mannered but such focus wow.
Charlie must have made good money running shine! Had to have been super expensive to modify a stock 40 Ford into a moonshine car. The thing was totally tricked out, engine, suspension, transmission, tires. He didn't talk about the breaks, but they must have been built too. Pretty impressive, plus you had to know how to drive!
He spent a lot of money to. Taking place in the late 40's and fifties, those cars were old and cheap , junk yard parts were cheap. Just needed the labor. That's what made them good Racers. They knew there cars and how to drive them.
That a really great video and i like to get the info to go to the next Mountain Moonshine Festival in Dawsonville, GA. and talk with people like Charlie Mincey's one of the great moonshine drivers
Dawsonville (pop ~ 3,000) is the county seat of Dawson County, GA, about 45 miles north of Atlanta and halfway to the TN/NC borders ha! Didn’t cops have to stop at the state lines? Charlie must have lots of stories! 🤣👌🏼
a keg of roofing nails in the passenger seat and a road oiler in the rear. if the cops got too close throw em some nails out the window and oil the road behind you
True. You can do anything thing you wanted to them cars only 2 hold backs. Dont make it stand out "flashy" at all & Money to buy parts. Some them cars went superchargers & turbos ect. Old amblance 500 cu in was highly wanted. Jr. Was ask 1 day if Ford came down to help him few weeks back. No they came down so I would help them.
Moonrunners always ran Fords. Chevys and Pontiacs just couldn't hold up on those back country roads. Later on they went to Mopars for speed and durability, but from 1925-1965 you didn't see a moonshine hauler that didn't have a blue oval on it.
Marvin Harrison Smith II cheap to build and modify. that is why more Ford's were used. also because you could find parts for them at a yard sale. common as a turd back then. mopars were only used by the upper class hillbillies and purchasers who didn't want to lose loads. they would stick those shit heads in real cars.
Ford was the only one of the big three who had a mass produced V8 engine from 1932 until the Oldsmobile Rocket V8 came out in 1949 and the Chrysler Hemi came out in 1951 I believe. Chevy and Pontiac didnt come out with their first V8 until 1955. Many bootleggers would pull the original Ford Flathead V8 and drop in a V8 from a Cadillac ambulance. In 1966 when the Chrysler 426 Street Hemi came out it became an instant favorite of moonshiners... Especially when it came in the taxicab looking 66 Dodge Coronet/Plymouth Belvedere...The ultimate sleeper in my opinion
This interview was done just about right. Charley certainly is a most gracious subject. The interviewer managed themselves in order to pull this off without asking or saying too many dumb things. Charley is way cool tho, and the interview ended with the results being well done.
I wish you would have ask about the money part of moonshining. His part of the money. Because it was hard times and he was rich compared to the non-moonshiners
Now that is a cool documentary about a real American man and real American cars, doing real American shit! Much respect for that man and the ones like him, they're breed is slowly going extinct these days.
Id like to back my chevy pickup ...up next to that old ford.......open my tailgate ..sit there and listen to this guy talk about drankin gas and haulin azz .......all day long.......jar of shine in one hand and a ice cold burrr in the other.......oh what the hell put a few sausages on the grill while were at it........Cruze on Charlie.... cruze on....
I am the one who interviewed Charlie here in this video. I think it was in 2010, so I was only 13 years old. I had a deep appreciation for racing history, especially of the North Georgia area. Many of these old guys took me 'under their wing' so to speak as how many pre-teens were interested in old racing? Charlie was exceptional to me, not only here in this video but up until he passed. I was honored to have been a pall bearer at his funeral in 2016.
Also, I totally understand that Charlie made this interview. But I just want to note this was probably the second time I had ever done any type of interview. It was a spur of the moment thing - "Here, go take this camera and talk to Charlie".
I miss Charlie and dozens of others from his era. The stories that he and others could tell were unmatched. He was one of the biggest supporters to us at the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame here in Dawsonville. We still have a display case with some highlights of his accomplishments, and yes, we have had his 39' on display at various times before.
Good work Cody. Thank you for your help in getting this fine man to speak to us.
Thanks for having the foresight to document this man's story as such a young man
I was impressed with the questions you were asking as a young, whippersnapper. Really good job I thought. And Charlie seemed very patient. I probably could use more of him myself.
Great interview, even more impressive given how young you were at the time. It makes sad when I wonder how many other folks like Charlie passed without their story being preserved for posterity.
god bless him and all the ridge runners with the shine carrie on
I love hearing older people tell their stories :)!!
+swtrb05 When the stories are interesting, like Charlie´s, yes of course.
I love listing to Charlie talk, it just makes me happy for some reason (:
Charlie's one of the reasons Ford started making the Interceptor .
this man was/is pure gold...
The Moonshine Festival is usually the third weekend in October. It just keeps growing each year. I saw a report once stating there had been 150,000 people there at one event. Never seen that many 40 Fords in my life.
Bless him ...this was an amazing video of Charlie Mincey and his 39 Ford... So Cool
Not only was Charlie a great hauler he was a short track legend in Georgia! Used to see him race at Lakewood and the Peach Bowl! Those were great days!
Me too! Loved to see this great guy always was the nicest guy on the track and loved all the kids.
Hey did he he say one of the Flock boys built his motor?
@@Chief-Solarize Yes, he did.
Wish I could've seen him race
To this day, I do not doubt the stories of this ol boy! Damn good thank you! Hope I age as well and have somebody interested in my tales!
Bob Flock built engine. That's history right there. 👍
Nice video with a nice man giving us some history of a moonshine car from the past.
Props to whoever was doing the interviewing
I love how smart they became to out fox or out run the bad guys😂😂
So, to recap, we're basically talking about a neck and neck race with the v8-equipped Feds, with a 200lb load of shine, on crap roads, at night, with leaf spring suspension, those weird little torsion shocks, crap headlights, *bias ply tires* and no pesky seatbelts or roll cages or sissy safety glass or padded steering wheels, at speeds over 100mph *while getting shot at*. Sweet baby jesus that sounds absolutely terrifying.
200 gallons not lbs water weighs 8lbs per gallon so even wilder than you imagined
And drum brakes..other trick was a Colorado rear end..two speed
@@miguelcastaneda7257 At least he had hydraulic brakes that year. High tech.
And the big balls it took too
LEGEND WISH WE HAD MORE VIDEOS OF THE OLD TIMERS SO WE CAN HEAR THERE STORIES
I love Here in the old moonshiners stories. I’d loved ta been Back then and runnin shine
Papaw had a 40 springs stiff and load was what made it to Knox from the Mountains of NC he told me that 19E going down was the worst part brakes sucked and the trees where tight to the road ..W.S. Tucker R.I.P.
I had the pleasure of listening to to Charlie Mincey Buck Simmons. C L Pritchett tell stories about hauling moonshine and racing man you can’t get any better than those 3 Thanks for the video
I Love hearing these old Stories. Love the Cars and the History too. Its Great.
I had zero idea that this was such a big part of car mod culture
What a cool guy and great video. I can sit and listen to these guys for hours the stories they got to tell. And I gave you a thumbs on your video by the way.
used to watch him race at Senoia Ga. speedway in the late 70's against Leon Archer #222, Mike Head #54, Roscoe Smith #44, Doug Kennimer #42, Charlie Bagwell #U2, Dub Meeler , Charlie Hughes etc. Great memories !
I remember Mike Head racing at Senoia in the eighties
In 1991 I wrote the race reports for North Georgia Speedway in Springplace. I remember Mike Head and Charles Hughes as being front runners.whichever winner had the best story got the lead even if it was the mini stock class. All these guys weren’t just great competitors they were quite aware that their sponsors liked to see their names in print so after their race they would hunt me up to tell me of their trials snd tribulations in preparing for the race.
I remember hanging out at Mike Heads garage on Anvil Block Rd. outside Rex Ga. Working on his car and his cousin making everyone bologna sandwiches.
If I remember correctly Mike Head was a stunt driver in several movies made in Ga. during the 70's.
Charlie Mincey, a great American.
Charlie you sir are a legend.
Great interview!
He should be properly interviewed and the car should be museumed
Original nascar guy. Very cool. I wish I could ask him some questions.
Oh this guy is a piece of history! Way to go Charlie! Talking about getting a jump on the cops on Highway 9 which runs S/N through Dawsonville, then ditching on the backroads! Check your satellite maps, I can imagine that wow!
Thank you Charlie!
This reminds me of the time my grandfather told me about a moonshine run he did with a truck after Vietnam for his friend he met at war that lived in virgina to get a little extra cash but he never really talked about it because shortly after that happened he became a cop in nj never did it again he says the pay was so good he almost did another run.
Great hearing history. Popcorn sutton a legend Bonnie an clyde drove a 1934 Ford on their last bout.....
what an awesome interview!
Great interview! Well done
Well done much respect
Great interview-
Just them good ole boys, never mean'n no harm.... At a boy Charlie!!
Thanks Cody!
people like charlie made america interesting. they basicly invented nascar. i want to build a car like that
The real Thunder Road-runner :0)
You can only imagine some of the kamikaze shit those old moonshiners pulled in those cars...
just for nastalgias and charleys sake i hope it is one one his original cars that would really be neat
Charlie, Moonshine, Nascar, Ford = AMERICA
yes sir not too many people know that nascar started from moonshineing america
My mother hauled moonshine in Nashville back in the day, when she was only 18. She was very pretty and prim and proper so she flew under the police radar. Back then she was Ramona Watkins; she would later become Ramona Burnett, the wife of a Nashville police officer. She also went on to become the country's first Weather Girl on WCPO in Cincinnati (like I said, she was very pretty), but before then she was poor after her father, a doctor, had died.
So fifty dollars to drive a Chevy with "special suspension" in the rear to a specific alleyway, park it and lock the doors and trunk, sit through the movie in the nearby theater, and then drive the car (with a much-higher rear now) back home and park it, was an easy decision for her. This was around 1950, just before she went into television and met my father.
She said that Chevy was a monster. At normal RPMs for normal street driving the engine sounded a little like it needed a new muffler, but nothing to attract police attention, she said. But once she punched it, it was like Godzilla banged his shin on a sharp object and all hell broke loose. The Local Boys chose her also because she could drive like a bat out of hell if the cops chased her, which they never did.
This was put to the test much later in her life when, at ten years old, I was bleeding from a giant gash in my wrist made by a rusty cat food can lid when I was pushing down a bag of garbage into the garbage can outside. She drove her MGBGT sports car like a mad woman and got me to the hospital faster than an ambulance could have arrived at our house. It was serious Race Day Point Of View stuff, and damn exciting, even though I was also afraid of dying with that bloody washcloth wrapped around my wrist.
She was one hell of a mother. Bought me a submachine gun for my high school graduation present (ATF Form 4'ed it to herself because I was not yet 21, and had to be with me whenever I fired it until I transferred it to myself later on) and a Smith and Wesson Model 29 .44 Magnum for my 19th birthday present. Thank goodness I was responsible enough! She wouldn't have if I hadn't been.
Anyway, if you want to see my mother and father, they are featured in the book Cincinnati Television by Jim Friedman. She's listed as Ramona Burnett and he as Bud Chase (his Goyisher television name, since they didn't much like Jews in television back then.
Very nicely done young sir. It's good that you can respect your elders because they do have a lot to bring to the table that you know you may want to know and if they have and you just need to ask him. I'm almost 64 and my son is 42. I still know more about what he owns and drives but he's catching up quick because I simply don't care as much as I used to. But it is very nice when my son comes and asks me about an issue with his car and we can discuss it. That makes me feel useful and that is very special to this this old man. LOL thanks from Bob in Virginia USA
This is an awesome interview!! Thanks for sharing it with the world!! 😀👍🏻
He's talking about the old when he saying you could spend the car around by dropping it in low gear that's what they called The Bootlegger u-turn
The Original NASCAR. Surely wish you'd have had him show the engine.
I went to school with a Mincey clan…never heard the name before or since….till this video. My buddy’s dad was a character! Reminds me of him seeing and hearing this fella…. I wonder if they were related.
They repealed Prohibition in 1933 but these guys KEPT RUNNIN' SHINE to avoid the tax !
Very cool. Thanks for sharing.🤠👍
That was awesome!
Love this guy
Real American
talented too
Great video!! If really enjoyed hearing him speak. It would be killer to meet that man. A walking legend
My great grandfather grew up in those hills around carters lake area! It was a sad time when they had to move a little south for work!
What a beauty. Love that split window.
Damn they had these old fords modded all the way..
So much history in these ole fellers
Yes sir Charlie Mincey's vehicle is the real deal as Charlie is himself. A very good posting excellent questions and yes history as told by the folks that were THERE, great effort more posting . That 39 Ford was one of the finest old Henry produced. Down here in Australia in 2012 they are legends. In your part of the world GA Moonshiners and blockaders are also legends. 5/5
Would've been nice to see some video of the engine compartment 🚀
Yes, i would love to see what's under the hood, did ford have the flathead (V-8) back then ???
Yes...it would have been a Ford Flathead V8...some of those shine runners would soup up a Mercury or Lincoln Flathead because of the longer stroke on the motors ......I love how Mr. Mincey added the more heavy duty Lincoln gears....and a 2 speed differential to boot....
Love it....they were very innovative. ..
I would really love to see more American bootleggers tell their stories. As a 'petrolhead' the era is fascinating.
My uncle was a bootlegger and ran a taxi as a cover he was more low key selling only federal taxed bottles, always good to keep the feds out of the picture.
PS My mother, now past at 93, one night joined us with some wine. She got wound up and told us stories of her driving my uncle, her bother in-laws taxi. Running to Ohio for the bourbon and making the deliveries. Mom was a real hillbilly from a line of hillbillies dating from before the revolution. I guess it makes me one two.
That's how you know when you're old when you can't recognize a car that you once owned a long time ago or you just had too many damn cars to remember
I think the latter.....
He's passed away sadly on 4/8/16 at 84
ChannelNotFound Oh RIP Charlie. I was just wondering that when I saw this video was made a few years ago. Really great this little chat was captured for posterity. Mild mannered but such focus wow.
Lucky to make it past age 30 in that line of work.
My ancestors ran moonshine in Packards. real old car company.
So cool! Thanks for posting this!
Would have liked to see the motor, and hear it run!
We need more video like this as it is true american history
Charlie must have made good money running shine! Had to have been super expensive to modify a stock 40 Ford into a moonshine car. The thing was totally tricked out, engine, suspension, transmission, tires. He didn't talk about the breaks, but they must have been built too. Pretty impressive, plus you had to know how to drive!
hello, how are you doing. I hope you are safe and in good health. Looking for a new friend and i saw your pic here. I hope you don't mind thank you.
He spent a lot of money to. Taking place in the late 40's and fifties, those cars were old and cheap , junk yard parts were cheap. Just needed the labor. That's what made them good Racers. They knew there cars and how to drive them.
Nice guy! Interesting stories. First hand.
That a really great video and i like to get the info to go to the next Mountain Moonshine Festival in Dawsonville, GA. and talk with people like Charlie Mincey's one of the great moonshine drivers
yut,yut, part of our history,part of our greatness
Very Good!..
If some of these moonshiners started a racing association I’d watch, until it becomes too polished and commercialized, then I’d stop watching.
Like nascar? Lol
😂
@@keithturgeon5448 isn’t it sad?
I cannot even imagine 120 mph in a 39 Ford
Especially on the tires and roads of the day....
Dawsonville (pop ~ 3,000) is the county seat of Dawson County, GA, about 45 miles north of Atlanta and halfway to the TN/NC borders ha! Didn’t cops have to stop at the state lines? Charlie must have lots of stories! 🤣👌🏼
I love the good old days of MOONSHINE...
Thanks so much for posting would love to see that last hit engine
Nice history lesson.
I sure miss Ole Mincey. He was a good ole boy
a keg of roofing nails in the passenger seat and a road oiler in the rear. if the cops got too close throw em some nails out the window and oil the road behind you
That's not very nice. 😂
The townspeople will be waiting for you next trip.
Jr Johnson, who drove some of the fastest NASCAR racers ever, was quoted as saying the fastest car he ever drove was a moonshine car!
True. You can do anything thing you wanted to them cars only 2 hold backs. Dont make it stand out "flashy" at all & Money to buy parts. Some them cars went superchargers & turbos ect. Old amblance 500 cu in was highly wanted. Jr. Was ask 1 day if Ford came down to help him few weeks back. No they came down so I would help them.
Well it looks like there is some hope for Georgia!
THUNDER ROAD !
Moonrunners always ran Fords. Chevys and Pontiacs just couldn't hold up on those back country roads. Later on they went to Mopars for speed and durability, but from 1925-1965 you didn't see a moonshine hauler that didn't have a blue oval on it.
Marvin Harrison Smith II cheap to build and modify. that is why more Ford's were used. also because you could find parts for them at a yard sale. common as a turd back then. mopars were only used by the upper class hillbillies and purchasers who didn't want to lose loads. they would stick those shit heads in real cars.
Guess the Ford badge was just another tip-off to the law tho!
Lot of times they put in a Cadillac motor in them though
Ford was the only one of the big three who had a mass produced V8 engine from 1932 until the Oldsmobile Rocket V8 came out in 1949 and the Chrysler Hemi came out in 1951 I believe. Chevy and Pontiac didnt come out with their first V8 until 1955. Many bootleggers would pull the original Ford Flathead V8 and drop in a V8 from a Cadillac ambulance. In 1966 when the Chrysler 426 Street Hemi came out it became an instant favorite of moonshiners... Especially when it came in the taxicab looking 66 Dodge Coronet/Plymouth Belvedere...The ultimate sleeper in my opinion
Ford was the horsepower king by default from 1932 until about 1949...when Oldsmobile and Cadillac released their first OHV V8's
200 gallons is 1,600 lbs!!!
Keep in mind high proof shine is a little lighter than water.
This interview was done just about right. Charley certainly is a most gracious subject. The interviewer managed themselves in order to pull this off without asking or saying too many dumb things. Charley is way cool tho, and the interview ended with the results being well done.
Says you
awesome!
I didn't want to see the cans, I wanted to see the engine!
I wish you would have ask about the money part of moonshining. His part of the money. Because it was hard times and he was rich compared to the non-moonshiners
Listen to the old folks. They ll teach you a bit. Old fellow. Had an interesting life.
You never come back from Copperhead road!
Y'all gotta let the sun stand still.......and make the moonSHINE..!!!
Now that is a cool documentary about a real American man and real American cars, doing real American shit! Much respect for that man and the ones like him, they're breed is slowly going extinct these days.
Cool vid very interesting. thanks
Wish youd've had him show the engine!!!
Id like to back my chevy pickup ...up next to that old ford.......open my tailgate ..sit there and listen to this guy talk about drankin gas and haulin azz .......all day long.......jar of shine in one hand and a ice cold burrr in the other.......oh what the hell put a few sausages on the grill while were at it........Cruze on Charlie.... cruze on....
Engine was a 309 flat head with a Throckmorton turbo...
The question I was waiting for was, “Did you ever get caught?”
THE TRAFFICKERS OF THEIR ERA....-
Nice!