While Big Bill’s grandson, Brian France, doesn’t want you to know or even care about anything that happen in NASCAR prior to 1972, (and he certainly doesn’t want to admit that the early stars that built the foundation of NASCAR were “training” for the races by hauling untaxed liquor on the back roads of the South), he is certainly glad that the owner of Glen Dunaway’s moonshine car sued NASCAR.
That's because the winning of that court case established the power of Big Bill France and NASCAR. Brian France certainly enjoys his power over the sport, but much like kings of the past, he certainly doesn’t want anyone to look too closely at how the power was obtained and how it is now used.
About the “ATF” seal above: The “Revenuers” who chased the moonshiners in the 1940’s worked for what was then known as The Alcohol Tax Unit of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. The ATU later became the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the IRS and for the first time it began to be referred to by the initials "ATF." The ATF (by then actually called The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) was, effective Jan. 24, 2003, transferred under the Homeland Security bill to the Department of Justice from the Treasury Department. The official seal [shown above] of what is still called the ATF carries the date of 1972, the creation year of The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
http://www.atf.gov/about/history.htm
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