Editor's note: This story originally ran in April of 2015. We're bringing it back in its full original form to commemorate Johnson, who died Dec. 20 at age 88. -- "James Dean in that Mercury '49 ...

Junior Johnson, a stock-car racing giant whose career spanned the sport’s history from its moonshining roots to its modern era as a fierce, hard-nosed driver and an innovative mechanic and team owner, ...

NASCAR has a long memory, and few stories capture its tangled roots in rural crime and national politics like the saga of Hall of Famer Junior Johnson. Johnson did his time first, then, decades later, ...

Robert Glenn "Junior" Johnson, the moonshine runner turned NASCAR driver described as "The Last American Hero" by author Tom Wolfe in a 1965 article for Esquire, died Friday. He was 88. NASCAR ...