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By Buz McKim

The black car made its way down the dirt road that ran from Dawsonville, Georgia to Atlanta. In the early morning stillness just outside of town, it stopped next to a stream and under a bridge where the driver got out. Pulling a bucket and towels from the car, Raymond Dawson Parks cleaned off any traces of red clay to avoid attention, put on a three-piece suit and, looking more like a doctor than a whiskey hauler, blended in with the traffic making its way to the big city.

Not the traditional way one would picture a hauler plying his trade. But Parks was never caught on the road.

He was born in 1914 in rural Dawson County, set in mountainous North Georgia, where he was the oldest of 16. At 14, he ran away from an abusive father to work in his uncle’s gas station in Atlanta. By 16, he’d set up a lucrative side hustle. After working all day in the garage, he’d take off for Dawsonville where he’d load 60 gallons of moonshine and Raymond parks nascar biography sample form.