Who says the good ole days of NASCAR are gone -- the days when hard-livin' drivers honed their skills outrunning the revenuers?
Not Carl Dean Combs, who raced in the early 1980s. He was just busted when state agents in North Carolina found a still near the old North Wilkesboro Speedway.
Johnson, who served time in the 1950s for bootlegging, now sells liquor legally under the brand name Midnight Moon.
Not Carl Dean Combs, who raced in the early 1980s. He was just busted when state agents in North Carolina found a still near the old North Wilkesboro Speedway.
Carl Dean Combs 57, of Speedway Road, North Wilkesboro, was charged with manufacturing non-tax paid liquor, as well as one count each of possessing ingredients to manufacture and possessing equipment to manufacture non-tax paid liquor, said N.C. Alcohol Law Enforcement (ALE) Agent Shon Tally.
Tally said Combs was at his nearby residence when he and other ALE agents found the still in the back of a gray shop building behind a go-cart track, near the North Wilkesboro Speedway.
Tally said Combs wasn't taken into custody when he served the warrants at his residence about 11:30 a.m. today.
He said the still had a capacity of 300 gallons per run, with about 1,150 gallons of corn mash in the "working" stage in preparation for another run in two to three days. Tally said the still was warm from a run of corn liquor on Thursday.
"It was a very professional, clean operation... all stainless steel," he said, adding that it had a primary condenser and a secondary condenser for efficiency and quality. It also had about 180 feet of copper tubing.
Combs made 24 Cup starts from 1981-84 with a best finish of eighth at Atlanta. He was also a five-time champion in what used to be NASCAR's Goody's Dash Series and was a crew chief for legendary team owner Junior Johnson.Tally said Combs was at his nearby residence when he and other ALE agents found the still in the back of a gray shop building behind a go-cart track, near the North Wilkesboro Speedway.
Tally said Combs wasn't taken into custody when he served the warrants at his residence about 11:30 a.m. today.
He said the still had a capacity of 300 gallons per run, with about 1,150 gallons of corn mash in the "working" stage in preparation for another run in two to three days. Tally said the still was warm from a run of corn liquor on Thursday.
"It was a very professional, clean operation... all stainless steel," he said, adding that it had a primary condenser and a secondary condenser for efficiency and quality. It also had about 180 feet of copper tubing.
Johnson, who served time in the 1950s for bootlegging, now sells liquor legally under the brand name Midnight Moon.
