The NYPD Fleet: The Biggest Police Fleet Never Built for the Chase
A car capable of 130 mph was useless in Manhattan, because there was nowhere to reach it. So the largest fleet in America specified something else entirely.
For two and a half years a cheap Ford V8 outran every police force in America. What finally stopped it was not a faster car, and the car was never theirs.
Moonshine Runners vs Revenuers: How Bootleggers Founded NASCAR
For thirty years the men hauling untaxed whiskey drove faster cars than the federal agents chasing them. Then they started racing each other for money.
