The Last American Hero

Program Title:
The Last American Hero
PRA Archive #: 
SZ0745.02a
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The Last American Hero / by Tom Wolfe| produced by Tom Hansell. - SERIES: Front porch stories| no. 2 - Non-fiction story about Southern style Stock Car racing in the early sixties, featuring fictious driver Junior Johnson from Wilkes County, North Carolina. CONTENT: Introduction to Junior Johnson, the last of the hard chargers who made stock car racing and muscle cars popular during Detroit's horsepower wars of the 1960's. - RECORDED: 1992.

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30:00
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