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NASCAR champion driver and team owner Robert Glenn Johnson, Jr. -- aka Junior Johnson -- was the lead-footed, lightnin' fast son of a North Carolina bootlegger whose talents for the gritty hairpin turn and relentless drive for speed and dominance has died in the North Carolina hills from which he sprang, aged a robust 88. He had more wins as a driver and owner than he could care to count, and along with the Frances, Sr. and Jr., Dale Earnhardt Sr., Richard Petty, and a handful of other good ol' boys, he was there at the beginnings of NASCAR, as lovingly chronicled by the almost-as-legendary Southern journalist Tom Wolfe.

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