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A bootleg turn is a radical type of U-turn intended to reverse the direction of travel of a forward-moving automobile by 180 degrees in a minimum amount of time while staying within the width of a two-lane road. This maneuver is also known as a smuggler's turn, handbrake turn or simply a bootlegger. Image File history File links Bootlegturn. ...
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Technique
The turn is performed by putting the vehicle quickly into a lower gear, usually the second gear, and quickly turning the wheel in the direction of the opposite lane (to the left in countries where traffic drives on the right hand side of the road, and to the right in countries where traffic drives on the left hand side of the road). If performed correctly, the vehicle will enter a controlled skid, enter the opposite lane and turn completely around. In a perfect bootleg turn, the car will be at a complete stop at the end of the maneuver and ready to accelerate and depart in the opposite direction. Gears on a piece of farm equipment, gear ratio 1:1. ...
Classic bootleg turns can only be performed on cars with a manual transmission and is most easily done on a rear wheel drive car, as the spinning back wheels aid in the turn. This is because the maneuver is essentially a controlled fishtail-like spinout. Vehicles with an automatic transmission can be modified to make a bootleg turn possible. This is most commonly done for stunt vehicles used in motion pictures, to reduce the stress on the stunt driver to change gears while turning. Fishtailing is a problem with rear wheel drive vehicles. ...
Cars with a handbrake on the rear wheels can enter a controlled turning skid by employing the handbrake, locking the wheels and turning the steering wheel sharply in either direction. This maneuver can also be called a bootleg turn.
It is easier to initiate this on some cars by initially applying a flick of the steering wheel the wrong way, before turning it in the direction the driver wants to go. This increases the load transfer to the outer wheels. Using the handbrake to break the traction of the rear wheels is a lot simpler than trying to do this by power alone. In automobiles, load transfer is the imaginary shifting of weight around a motor vehicle during acceleration (both longitudinal and lateral). ...
Origins The name of the turn originates from the Prohibition era of the United States, when bootleggers transporting illegal liquor would use the maneuver to escape from police officers. Bootleggers were notorious for using modified high-speed cars to transport their goods, and using daring driving maneuvers to escape authorities. The man credited with inventing the bootlegger turn is Robert Glenn "Junior" Johnson, who ran liquor from his father's moonshine still and went on to become a highly successful NASCAR racer. The term Prohibition, also known as Dry Law, refers to a law in a certain country by which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages is restricted or illegal. ...
Rum-running is the business of smuggling or transporting of alcoholic beverages illegally, usually to circumvent taxation or prohibition. ...
Robert Glen Johnson, Jr. ...
Shine Road The name tells the history of this back road in Hemingway, South Carolina Revenue men at the site of moonshine stills, Kentucky, 1911 or before Moonshine (sometimes known as PoitÃn, mooney, moon, creek water, hooch, Portuguese grape juice, white lightning, and many others) is a common slang...
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is the largest sanctioning body of motorsports in the United States. ...
Related Contrast the bootleg turn with a similar, and perhaps safer direction-reversing maneuver called a moonshiner's turn, or J-Turn, which begins instead with a stationary automobile accelerating straight backward for a few seconds before the steering wheel is turned quickly to complete a skidded 180 degree turn. The 1999 Guinness World Record for the "Narrowest J-Turn" is 172 cm. A J-Turn is a driving manoeuvre which is basically a backwards U-turn. ...
See also Signs for U-turn ramps on US 22 in Union County, New Jersey A U-turn in driving refers to performing a 180 degree rotation in order to reverse direction of travel. ...
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External links - Junior Johnson - Legend of Moonshine Running and Stock Car Racing
- animation of a car performing a bootlegger's turn
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