Moonshiners (2011–…): Season 5, Episode 17 - Need for Speed - full transcript

One time, me and barney
Were making this run

To nashville, tennessee,

Delivering
A boatload of moonshine.

I'm always the driver.

Barney's over there singing
And picking on the fiddle.

We come around this curve,

And the law had had
A roadblock set up,

And the blue lights
Are flashing and all that.

Well, anytime you see the law
And you got a boatload

Of moonshine in the back
Of the truck,

Your heart skips a beat,
You know?



Luckily, by the grace of god,

Just that second, they turned
Their blue lights off,

And they're, like,
All starting to drive away

From the roadblock.

And that was probably
One of the closest calls

That I remember
That sticks out the most

In my mind.

*bleep* damn.

For outlaws across appalachia,

There's only one tradition

That matches the rush
Of making moonshine.

Let's go.

Bootleggers since
The days of prohibition

Have felt the need for speed.



In kentucky,
School's in session...

You know
What a j-turn is?

...As one
Seasoned shiner teaches

A rookie how to leave the law
In the dust...

Stay on the road.
Stay on the road!

Here we go.

...Two mountain men's
Off-road skills are put

To the test when they run
A load of whiskey

Across the top
Of the smoky mountains...

This is the way
The old-timers bootlegged.

...A couple of old pros employ
A slippery trick

To honor the outlaws
Of days gone by...

Think we can get
Anything.

It's laying it down.

...And will
One bootlegger's training

On the back roads translate
To success on the track?

-holy crap.
-it's fierce competition.

It's not for your mama's boys.

This is how we make
The moonshine!

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Shut it off.
Shut it off.

Again?

Just an hour outside
Of spartanburg, south carolina,

Josh is trying to parlay

What he's learned running
From the law

Into a successful racing career

On the southern
Dirt-track circuit.

Make sure your steering
Wheel's locked.

You didn't lock it
One time before.
Remember that?

Well, moonshine
And racing go hand in hand.

You wouldn't have racing
Without bootleg and moonshine.

You know, it's the good old
Boys trying to outrun the law,

They got to drinking the stuff
And carrying on,

And one dude wanted to see
Who's faster than another,

You know, who could build
The best motor.

As the single most common form
Of auto-racing in the u.S.,

Dirt-track races were born
Before world war I

And became widely popularized
By bootleggers

During prohibition.

Today, the u.S. Has
Over 1,300 dirt tracks,

And the success of the sport
Has spread across the globe.

Just over a century ago,

The first champion
Dirt-track vehicles

Topped out at 60 miles per hour.

But the modern,
Late-model stock car can hit

Over 140 miles per hour
On the slick speedway.

With a steel chevy 355 engine,
Aluminum heads,

And holley carburetors
Delivering 850 horsepower,

Josh's 2,000-pound race car

Is a study in power, precision,
And smoking hot speed.

I've been racing
For a couple years now,

And it's, like,
My escape from reality.

When I get out there
And it get in that race car,

It's like everything else
Goes away.

I've been racing
For a long time now.

I've got a third
And a first,

And then some sixths
And sevenths.

But I've only been racing
A real race car

For a bout three or four races,

And I'm kind of throwing myself
To the wolves.

This weekend, we got
An opportunity for a big race,

And I'm a little bit
Nervous about it.

Josh is on his way.

Having already won qualifiers,

He's practicing
For his first heat race.

The next steps are semi-feature,
Feature, then championships.

But first, he must secure
A top-three finish this weekend.

-you getting ready?
-yeah.

Well, what do you think
About the track?

I think it's slick.

Well, I think we'll need
To walk it out

And let me show you
A few things.

-all right.
-to get an edge

On the competition,
Josh has called

On one of the kings
Of the dirt track.

I got "The night stalker,"
Billy bishop,

Who's in
The racing hall of fame.

He's my mentor,

And he's teaching me pretty much
Everything he knows.

Got these cones out here,

And sort of show you
Where you need to run.

A winner of hundreds
Of dirt-track races

Spanning four decades,
Billy knows the contours

Of a clay speedway better
Than anyone.

Coming into the cone right here,
You got to run her down in deep.

So, you stay at the edge of
The black line no matter what?

-yeah.
-so, like, it's all the way

Up to here, then?
-stay down to about right here.

Huh?

I know that's right.

Because rubber tires
Don't grip on dirt

Like they do on pavement,

Drivers on the dirt track need
To turn by drifting

Or sliding the car.

Billy's teaching josh where
And when are the best places

To initiate that slide.

I know I can drive,
But knowing how to drive

And knowing how to race
Are two different things.

You can't be too aggressive
To start with.

You got to calm down.

You don't learn racing
Overnight.

It takes years of it
To really be good.

Everybody wants
To underestimate me

'cause I'm green as a gourd,

But when I start kicking
Their butt on the racetrack,

I'm gonna put every one of them
In their place.

Let's get out there
And try it.

When you're moonshining,
It's one thing,

But when you're bootlegging,
It's whole 'nother ball game.

On a remote highway
In rural kentucky,

Tyler's gearing up
For a big midwestern delivery

Worth 10 grand.

You know, I've got
A real good opportunity here

Moving a lot of moonshine
Up north to chicago,

But I need a car where I can
Conceal it in a trunk.

My biggest concern is getting
Pulled over by the law.

I want to try
To avoid that at all costs.

I found this awesome car
With a lot of horsepower.

It's built really well.

It's an old, classic hot rod.

Got a buddy, and he's
Kind of been through the ropes

On all this stuff.

I want to see if he can't
Give me some of his opinions.

Hey.

You have a rough trip out?
-yeah.

Yeah, it's a rough trip.
-how you been, man?

Tim's got
A lot of wisdom and knowledge

That can help me out,
And I can learn from him,

Because, you know,
He's been around.

There's a pretty car.
What are you gonna do with it?

Well, I was looking
At like something fast

To run
A little moonshine in.

You know, I got this big deal
Going on up north --

Got to move quite a bit
Of liquor up there.

Hot rods
And moonshining share

A long and storied history

Stretching back a century
To prohibition.

When demand
For illegal alcohol reached

An all-time high
In the early 1930s,

Backwoods bootleggers
Of all stripes began

To soup up their model t's

With high-powered engines
And extra storage space.

And the race
For horsepower was on,

As they transformed
Their roadsters

Into the high-octane
Street racers

Able to outrun any vehicle
Driven by the law

And deliver their liquor
In record time.

That thing's built up,
Ain't it?

Oh, yeah,
That's pretty.

I think I can get
A good deal on it.

Known as the "Hugger"
For its legendary combination

Of agility and speed
On the open road...

-look at that.
-yeah.

...The '69 camaro sports
A four-barrel carburetor

And 325-horsepower v-8 engine --

Plenty enough firepower
To leave the cops

Or any other competition
In the dust.

But even a muscle car
This impressive has

Its drawbacks.

Real pretty,
But that's the thing --

It's too pretty,
Tyler.

This is not the car
For bootlegging.

Where you driving it to?
-going to chicago.

chicago?
From kentucky?

Yeah.

Getting into
The bootlegging business,

You got to have some
Common sense about yourself.

You're looking
At the wrong car.

Thing's got a big cam
And all that in it.

Here, let me crank it up,
So you can hear it.

You gonna have to stop
At every gas station.

I mean, how many miles is it
To chicago?

I mean, this thing's
Really got it going on.

Sounds good,
Don't it?

Sounds like
"Gas, gas, gas, gas."

this is more like a show car.

I know
It's a chick magnet.

It's gonna suck
The police, too.

This car fits
More than this car.

This is what you need
Right here, tyler.

You need a crown vic.

Looks like a cop car.

Police use these cars because
They don't have any problems.

That's gonna get you
In trouble.

It draws the wrong kind
Of attention.

You ain't trying
To sell this one, now, are you?

If I sell you this car,
How am I gonna get home?

-hell, I'll give you a ride.
-oh, in my own car?

yeah.

Well, I guess I need
To go find one.

We need to find
Your car.

Deep in the backwoods
Of carolina,

One shiner's prepping
For a rugged run of liquor

Across state lines.

But mark's new buyer wants
The whiskey in 24 hours,

So to bottle and bootleg it
Without getting caught,

He's decided
To bring in some backup.

Whoo-whoo!

Hey, huck.

Damn old cousin huck,
He's my buddy.

You about done to run?
-just about done right now.

To reach his drop point

Across the state line
In tennessee,

Mark's relying on a series
Of forgotten logging roads,

Game trails, and switchbacks
That wind their way

Across the highest peaks
East of the rockies.

Handed down
Through a tight network

Of smoky mountain bootleggers
Since prohibition,

This rugged pass should help
Keep the cousins

Out of the cross hairs
Of the law.

The route's only been used
A handful of times,

And will lead these shiners
Through the most remote

And treacherous terrain
In all of appalachia.

Well, I've got the truck.
It's in pretty good shape.

-got a winch on it?
-got a winch, good tires.

For
Their smoky mountain crossing,

Huck's using
One of the most reliable

Off-road trucks of all time,
The 1990 toyota hilux.

With 31-inch tires
For clearance,

A detroit differential lock
In the rear,

And a 10,000-pound winch

To pull them
Out of any tight spots,

There's nowhere
This workhorse won't go.

To prevent breakage
On the rocky road ahead,

Mark and huck are using
Duct tape to band

Their shine jars together...

-let's get out of here.
-let's go.

Coming up...

I tell you --
This is some fun *bleep*

We've done here, buddy.

...Built to spill
In the tennessee backwoods...

There it is.

Make sure that's good
And tight, mark.

I will.

...A smoky mountain run
Gone wrong...

My tires ain't grabbing.

...And it's put up
Or shut up in south carolina.

Aah!

My car starts going all to hell.
I feel it.

Every lap is getting worse
And worse.

Josh, turn the wheel
To the right.

Well, I'm meeting digger
Up at his garage.

We've decided to do some
General maintenance to our car.

On rolling country road

In cocke county, tennessee,
Heritage shiner mark is looking

To give his antique ride
Some outlaw upgrades.

You know, back in the day,
The bootleggers,

They always modified
Their suspension.

They wanted a souped-up engine.

They were full
Of mountain ingenuity,

And we aspire to do
What they did to their cars.

There's digger.

This '54 buick has
A moonshine history.

It was my wife's
Grandfather's car.

He made whiskey
And hauled whiskey in it.

And I want to further
The history of this car.

1954 buick century
Was the number-one street racer

In cocke county
Over 50 years ago.

It packs
A 322-cubic-inch v-8 engine

Onto a body both shorter
And lighter

Than most other large coupes
Of the day,

Giving the bootlegger
A high-performance vehicle

To move his high-proof product.

What are you doing

Besides taking your buick
For a little walk?

I want you to maybe help me
With something.

I'm gonna bootleg it up
A little bit.

You ain't planning on running
From the law are you?

No.

You want to do it
For the legacy factor.

Yeah, exactly.

Back in the day,
The old moonshiners,

They had a lot of tricks
Up their sleeves.

Oh, we're really gonna
Damn james bond it up.

Just flip that switch,

And you can spray oil
All over the place.

If you'll help me,
We'll do it.

Oh, I'll help you.

For their '54 buick,
Mark and digger are going

With the all-time-greatest
Pursuit-evasion device,

The oil dump.

The principle is very simple.

A tank installed
In the rear of the car allows

The shiner to spit out
An oil slick on command.

The tank is fitted
With a small pump connected

To a sprayer bar mounted along
The inside of the rear bumper,

And the pump is connected
To a switch inside the car.

Once out on the road,
If the shiner's being tailed,

He can simply flip a switch,
Lay down an oil slick,

And watch the fun
Unfold in his rearview mirror.

Look around in there
And see if there's some way

That we can strap
That tank down

So it don't move around.

We're gonna rig up a tank
And a pump in the trunk

Of the car
With an oil-distribution system.

Easy, easy.

When you trim them wire ties,
You can't see a thing.

A lot of
The old-timey moonshiners,

They tuned the cars
And worked on the cars

And souped them up
And switched the engines

And built up the suspension.

They were bona fide
Moonshine mechanics.

Looks good.
-maybe, man

All I got to do is wire
This switch up.

You know, we feel like
It's our job to keep the legacy

Of these
Old moonshining cars alive.

Let's wire
This end to the battery,

Test this bad boy out
Real quick.

All right.

Can you go back there
And see if the pump's running?

Now we're on.

Flip the switch now
And see if that kills it.

-kills it.
-good. We're golden. Yes!

Instead of using oil
To fill their dump tank,

The two shiners are opting
For some road-safe cola.

Back in the day,
The old moonshiners,

A lot of times,
They just put

A five-gallon bucket
Of burnt cylinder oil,

And they'd just dump it out
On the road.

We'd certainly be
In a big old bunch of trouble

If we tried to put oil
Down on the road

In this day and time.

My damn head feels like
It's a-melting.

Kind of look like it, too.

Hey, about time for you
To change that hat, ain't it?

Boy, it's getting tiny.
I'll tell you it is.

-come on, cutie pie.
-after spending a few days

Working hard on billy's
Cornering pointers,

Josh is back at it
For one more run

Before the big race.

We need to go make a few laps,
Sack our car down,

And see what we got.

All right, good luck.
Have at it.

With a top-three finish

In this week's heat race,

Josh could move up to compete
In the semi-feature circuit.

What's happening?

Nothing much.

I come up here to show you
A little something.

-you did?
-yeah.

-sweet.
-all right.

-that's a pretty sharp car.
-yep. You to follow me.

-uh-oh.
-I want you to see

If you can stay with me.

Just run the groove
Where I run.

If you stay with me,
You'll be doing good.

Get in your car, we'll go out
And make a few laps...

-all right.
-...See if you learn anything.

You ain't got
To tell me but one time.

All right.

Billy's putting
Josh's training to the test.

Now the student will have to see

If he can keep up
With the master.

Yes!
Whoo!

Billy brought out a race car
To actually get out there

And show me how to make the laps
The correct way.

As far as I know, billy's never
Done that for anybody else.

Wow.
This is good.

Following billy's lead,

Josh is sliding
Into the slick turns

On the dirt track like a pro

And keeping pace
With the racing legend.

But one mistake, and it's,
"Say 'hello' to the wall."

Aah!

*bleep*

*bleep*

I was doing good.

Well, did you learn
Anything?

It turned
A lot better today.

All I got to do is follow you
Tomorrow night,

And I got this.

Thank you.
Thanks for coming out, man.

Yeah.
You looked good.

I'm gonna get this battery
Put back in here.

We'll be ready to rock and roll.

In kentucky,
After nearly squandering

A pocketful of cash
On a show car,

Tyler's finally tracked down
A new set of wheels

For his big windy city sale.

I get this fluid in here,
We should be good to go.

The bootlegger's
2008 crown victoria comes loaded

With a 240-horsepower,
4.6-liter v-8 engine

And can hit zero to 60
In just seven seconds.

And with a motor
That matches a ford mustang

But suspension built
For a pickup,

The sedan has both the heart
Of a race car

And the backbone of a truck.

I got to move this moonshine
Up to chicago,

So I'm gonna be doing
Quite a bit of bootlegging.

Tim smith just said,
"Hey, you need to find

A good crown vic that looks
Like a police car,

And it might, you know,
Conceal the moonshine

A little better.

I found this car.

This thing is a real,
Legit police car.

Oh, he's coming in fast.

Tyler, he gives me a call.
He's done found a crown vic.

I want to test the car
To see how it runs,

But really the important thing
Is I want to test tyler.

Hey.
What's going on?

My dad -- sometimes,
We did a little bootlegging,

So we had run-ins with the law,

And I just agreed
To talk with tyler,

You know,
Give him some expertise.

We're gonna just teach him
How to drive the car

And so some moves --
Some j-turns and donuts

And this and that, you know?

All right, tyler.
You know what a j-turn is?

If we turn down this road

And there's a policeman
Coming that way

And you want to turn around
And go the opposite direction,

You got to stop,
Put it in reverse,

Go back,
Swing the front end around,

And go back
And change direction.

All right, let's go.

He might think I'm a little

Green around the gills
Or something.

I don't know if he knows
That I've been through

As much as I have.

Go! Gas! Gas! Gas!
Gas! Gas!

A long time ago,
My dad, he used to

A little bit of bootlegging
And everything,

And I can remember we use
To go to nashville

And load a pickup truck
To the top of the cattle racks

With liquor
And take back roads home.

And that's kind of some of the
Stuff that I'll never forget,

Because it's how I came to be
In this world of moonshine.

All right, look, tyler.

We want to go in that curve
As fast as we can.

Once you get into the turn,
You're gonna start to slide

Because of your speed.

Don't brake too much,
'cause you may lose control.

-yeah.
-just stay inside, stay tight,

And let the back end just
Come on around with it.

-power slide around the curve.
-yeah, just drift.

Yeah, let's do it.

Go, tyler.
Go. Go.

Tim's teaching tyler
How to maintain speed

Through a turn
By drifting the vehicle.

Watch the turn.
Got to go right.

Right. Right.
Right. Right. Right.

Stay on the road.
Stay on the road!

Go left.
Go left.

Ah! Tyler, brake!
Brake!

Go, tyler.
Go. Go.

On a long, winding
Road in rural kentucky...

-watch this turn.
-...Tim is teaching tyler

Some old-school
Evasion techniques

Before his big chicago sale.

Stay on the road.
Stay on the road!

Go left!
Go left!

Ah! Tyler, brake!
Brake!

*bleep*

My dad taught me
A big-time trick in bootlegging.

I'm real excited to pass it on.

All right, look, tyler.
You see this road?

You're gonna come down
That road straight.

You're gonna keep sideways
And drift all the way through,

Right into this turn,
Then take this right turn

And keep on straight
On this road.

Hopefully, with the dust bowl
That you create,

If somebody was coming in
Behind you,

You're gonna lose them
Right here.

-yeah, get rid of them.
-'cause they won't be able

To make that turn.

By the time they figure out
You went that way,

You'll be that much farther
Down the road.

-let's do it.
-in addition to maintaining

Speed through the turn,
Drifting will kick up

Enough dust behind tyler
To create a virtual smokescreen

To throw off any pursuers.

Go! Go! Go! Go!

Just floor it.
Go.

Watch this turn.
Right. Right. Right.

Right. Go. Go. Go.
Go. Go. Go.

I can remember back,
Actually before kindergarten,

Going with my dad
Down to still sites,

And I was always on the lookout,
Watching for the bad guy.

This thing handles
Pretty good, don't it?

Yeah, on these rocks.

And I can remember, you know,
Running off the road and stuff,

And trying to evade the police,

And stuff just flying up
Against the vehicle,

Then getting out and running

And laying down
In the bushes and hiding.

It was fun.

Even though it was probably
A stressful time for him,

And, you know,
It could've been really bad

If things didn't work out.

We're having too much fun.

I sure appreciate
Your help, man.

You'd think that we'd have
Better stuff to do

Than foolishness
Like this.

Back in eastern tennessee,

Two keepers
Of the bootleggers' flame

Are taking their vintage ride
On a test run.

This is good.

This is the way
The old timers bootlegged.

It's
Old-school bootlegging.

Mark and digger are
Trying out

An age-old shiners
Evasion trick --

Arming their '54 buick
With a hidden oil dump.

We've got no intentions
Of trying to outrun the law.

We can't do that in
These classic moonshiner cars,

But we want our car
To have the capability,

The same
As the long-gone moonshiner cars

From back in the day.

For today's trial run,
Instead of using oil,

The two shiners have filled
Their dump tank with cola.

I'll tell you --
This is some fun *bleep*

We've done here, buddy.
-oh, yeah.

This is ideal.

Ready?
Look here.

See if we can get
Anything.

-there it is.
-you see it?

Yeah.

It's a-laying it down.

I love it.

Well, I wonder
What a car behind us

Would think about that.

He wouldn't think much
Of anything

Till he slid
Off the road.

Then they'd think
We're sons of bitches.

From what we've gathered,

The oil dump, it came probably
In the late '40s, early '50s,

As they were transporting
Liquor farther distances.

They were able to dump
A lot of oil at one time,

But they couldn't use it
But once.

Mine and digger's little deal --
We can flip it on and off

Whenever we want to.

It's a hell of a way
To let off a little steam,

Ain't it?

To us,
It's about the moonshine,

But more importantly,
It's about the history.

That's something
Probably nobody's done

In a lot of years.

I'd say
Since the '50s.

-let's do it again.
-glad to.

there it is!

James bond, he may be known

For all of his tricks
And gadgets,

But we like to think they
All came from moonshiner cars.

Back in north carolina,

Two outlaws are taking
The road less traveled.

Mark and his cousin huck are
Using an old shiners' trail

To snake their way
Through the smoky mountains.

They have
Less than a day to deliver

$1,200 worth of whiskey
To their new tennessee buyer.

God almighty.

We're getting bounced around,
Getting jarred up and beat up,

But as long
As we don't break down,

We'll be okay.

The rugged terrain
Of appalachia breeds

Rugged individuals,

And like the scores
Of smoky mountain shiners

Before him, mark knows
The thick, dense forests,

Deep, hidden ravines,

And forgotten logging roads
Like the back of his hand.

I believe
You can make it, though.

Here we go.

Huck's winch is capable
Of pulling 10,000 pounds uphill

With just a single line.

Make sure that's good
And tight, mark.

I will.

If you don't put
A wide strap around a tree,

A lot of times,
The cable will cut into it,

And it'll break the cable.

There are thousands of pounds
Of tension on the cable.

If it snaps and flies free,
It could nearly cut in half

Anyone standing in the way.

Here we go.

Make sure that's good
And tight, mark.

I will.

In a dry creek bed
High up in the smoky mountains,

Two backwoods shiners are
Fighting an uphill battle.

Here we go.

With less than 24 hours
To make their tennessee drop,

Mark and huck tried
To shave some time

With a shortcut
Off the old bootleggers trail,

But now the two are in danger
Of losing both their new buyer

And a $1,200 pay day.

There's a lot
Of pressure on that cable.

Here we go.

Instead of cutting
Miles off their trail,

Mark's shortcut has
The two shiners hustling

To make up for lost time.

Hey, huck.
Uh...

Come down here with me.
Let me show you something.

That's a view.

We just need to get
Out here

And find us a place
To camp tonight

Because we're both tired

And start early
In the morning, try it again.

Yeah, we better get out here.
It's getting dark.

Get out of here.

Yeah,
I'm getting there.

It's less
Than an hour and counting

Until race night begins
At the cherokee speedway

In south carolina.

A little nervous.

Josh has taken in
Billy's corner lessons

And plans to use them
To place in the heat

And move up
To the semi-feature level.

But in a race this big,

The best-laid plans
Can quickly go to pieces.

So, we're finally here
At the racetrack.

I'm nervous as *bleep*

Calm down.
Take it easy.

Hell, man.
I'm trying to be calm,

But *bleep*

It's still
Damn scary as hell.

My heart's about to jump slap
Out of my chest.

I'm about as nervous
As could be.

I haven't been able
To hardly sleep at night.

Hopefully, I get a good finish.

Hell, we made it.

Get on your brakes.

When the car gets set sideways,
Get off our brakes.

Don't get on hard.
Don't jam them.

Me and billy been working really
Hard to get ready for this.

I'm more afraid of making
A fool of myself out here

And letting him down
Than I am flying over that wall

At 100 miles an hour.

With billy's help in the pit,

Josh is hoping he's got
A shot at racing glory.

This dirt-track racing,
It's not for your mama's boys.

The track was super-rough,
It's fierce competition,

Plus 90-mile-an-hour
Bumper cars.

Oh *bleep*

Aah!

So, I'm going around the track.

I'm feeling pretty good,
'cause I'm making good laps.

Lo and behold,
My car starts going all to hell.

I feel it -- every lap is
Getting worse and worse.

And my radiator's pissing out
Damn water.

Oh, lord.
Oh, lord.

Holy crap.

It's time to stop.
I don't care what the deal is.

You got to cool her down,
Or you're gonna burn her up.

Josh, turn the wheel
To the right.

If his team can
Get him back on track in time,

Josh still has
A chance to place

And earn a spot
In the semi-feature circuit.

This is my 1929 model "A" car.

It originally came
From my great grandpa.

Back in the day,
This car was the choice car

For running moonshine.

It was a bigger car,
A faster car.

You could haul more shine
In it than a model "T."

It's the original motor.

I put in a new water pump,
Put that alternator in it,

And changed the wiring
And stuff.

It took me about 3 1/2 years
From start to finish.

It was just a lot of hassle,

But it's kind of like
A family member to us.

I mean, if something was
To happen to it, I would cry.

it purrs like a kitten.

Yee-haw!

It's race night
In south carolina.

Josh has spent weeks perfecting
His driving skills

On the dirt track,
Hoping to place in the heat

And score a spot
In the semi-feature circuit.

Well, right now
We're having some issues.

My radiator's pissing out
Damn water.

But a mechanical failure
Has taken the shiner

And his crew by surprise.

If we don't get
This thing fixed,

The whole race is blown.

You need to calm down.

-you'll be fine.
-you have a plan?

Trying to get the
Radiator shroud out of the way

So we can get
To the radiator hose.

The hose is leaking
For some reason.
I don't know why.

I got to get the stuff
Out of the way.

A clamp connecting
The coolant hose

To the radiator snapped loose,
Causing the engine to overheat.

Can you believe a 30-cent clamp
Was all was wrong with it?

We got it fixed.
We're ready to race.

Ooh *bleep*

Holy crap, what am I thinking?

Ha!

*bleep*

Aah!
Whoa, whoa!

*bleep*

*bleep*

The last lap, my tire blows out.

Holy *bleep*

As I'm flying around the track,
Rubber's flying.

I felt the *bleep*
Start wobbling.

I wasn't letting that stop me
From finishing the race

No way and no how.

-I can do a lot better.
-you looked good.

I started last.
I finished last.

I may not did perfect,
But I drove

A damn hell of a race
For the conditions that I had.

The track was super-rough,

But I finished the race
With a flat tire.

I held my own.

I may not get there next week
Or the week after,

But I'm on my way.

Fix it for me.
You're doing a good job.

Yeah, it is.

As the sun rises
Over the smoky mountains,

Two carolina shiners
Are already on the move.

After a bad shortcut left them

Miles off
Their bootleggers trail,

Mark and huck are rushing
To make their tennessee drop

Before it's too late.

Oh, boy.

I see it's downhill,
But, man, it is rough.

Let's go.

The steep,
Winding descent would cause

A larger 4x4 to tumble,

But the shorter wheel base
And tight turning radius

On huck's pickup nimbly handles
The trail's sharp curves.

By taking the steep slope,
The shiners just saved

A critical hour
For their dead drop.

Hold it, huck.

Mark has agreed,
Through a middleman,

To make a dead drop,
An old bootleggers trick,

Where shiners swap product
For payment

Without ever laying eyes
On the buyer.

Let's cut
And get out of here.

Huck's trusty steed
Has gotten them through

Some rough terrain,

But for the ride home,
It's all paved roads.

Huck's old truck
Might be tougher

Than I thought
It would be.

There was a few places there I
Didn't think it would stand it,

But it did.

But that's
What made it interesting.

You never know
What was gonna happen.