After the war, Atlanta would launch a campaign against the moonshine drivers, opening the pathway for Bill France to create a new organisation, The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing or NASCAR. 

As its first president, they appointed the man who created the Cannonball Run, the event that inspired the films. 

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