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Raymond Parks, �the first person to put together a formalized, legitimate racing team,� ran away from his home in the mountains of northern Georgia at age 14 to become an apprentice to a moonshiner he had met in the county jail after being locked up for buying hooch for his father. Working at a still and hauling corn whiskey around Atlanta, Parks made a fortune bootlegging, and invested his ill-gotten gains in legitimate enterprises such as service stations and the growing sport of stock car racing. Parks didn�t have to venture far to find two talented drivers for his racing team. His cousins Lloyd Seay and Roy Hall happened to be some of the top moonshine runners in northern Georgia. Seay won the first big stock car race in 1938 at Atlanta�s Lakewood Speedway in front of 20,000 fans, and Hall would eventually win the national stock car championship in 1941. When stock car racing resumed after World War II in September 1945, a riot nearly ensued at Lakewood Speedway after police banned...

Fisk - killed by the depression, bought by US Rubber - Uniroyal, which was bought up by Michelin around 1990 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisk_Tire_Company Kelly Springfield was started in 1884, sold in 1935 to Goodyear, which dissolved the entity of Kelly Springfield around 1990. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Springfield_Tire_Company Lee Tire and Rubber lasted from 1909 to 1987, bought by Kelly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Tire_and_Rubber_Company Firestone opened for business in 1900, sold out to Bridgestone in 1988. Fyi, they made helmet liners in WW2, and surface to surface missiles in the early 50s. Firestone bought Dayton Tires in 1961, Dayton Tire division from the Dayco Corporation. Dayco later sued both Firestone and Goodyear, alleging that the two companies conspired to monopolize the tire industry in the United States. in 1979 Firestone was on the precipice of complete collapse having not acknowledged the good days were over, and that making radials on the machin...

In 1950, Firestone along with General Motors and Standard Oil, were found guilty, charged and convicted, of criminal conspiracy for purchasing streetcar systems throughout the United States and dismantling and replacing them with buses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestone_Tire_and_Rubber_Company