Fellow moonshiner Thurmond Brown explained some years back about how terrifying it was to ride with Junior when he was going full song on the highways of North Carolina. “Junior and me was comin’ back through Winston-Salem once at about 3 o’clock in the morning after unloading a load, and hell, he was just drivin’ sideways. And them little old mailboxes and newspaper boxes, well, Junior was justa clippin’ by those things right beside my face. I said, Junior, you’re gonna have the law on you. And it made him about half-mad, I believe. He said, ‘If we can’t outrun ‘em empty, what the hell are we a-doin’ down here loaded?’“I knew we could outrun ‘em, loaded or empty, but I was dreadin’ that ride. Junior whipped a car. The car was scared of him. He manhandled it. But settin’ over there on the other side–it was hard on me. He’d pass another car on the right side of the road, and the air would be full of dirt and grass, and that ol’ rear quarter-panel would be way up there in the damn woods and honeysuckle and such. Junior would say, ‘Ah, c’mon. It’ll be there when we get there.”

From Moonshine Runners, History and Their Cars