Anyone Got Any Good Dixie Mafia Stories?

I've always been fascinated by the Dixie Mafia -- partly because some of my relatives were involved.

Both sides of my family ran moonshine from time to time, but that didn't mean they were directly tied to the Dixie Mafia, but I had one family member that was.

My Great Uncle Roy on my mother's side used to run stolen cars from Chicago to Alabama and retitle them (at the time Alabama was a no title state). Then, he would sell them at one of his car lots.

My Dad told me he took that trip with Roy and my mother's cousins one time. My mother was pregnant with my sister (their first child). Dad was making about $650 a month, and they were going to pay him more than that to drive a car back down. So, a month or better's salary for 2 days work.

At the time, my Dad was going fishing every morning before work and every afternoon after work to hope to catch supper and working summers at a chicken plant or retarring roofs.

He rode up there with about 8 of my mother's cousins, went to a sketchy chop shop somewhere in south Chicago, picked up a car and drove it back down. He was terrified the whole way. Got paid and never did it again.

My great uncle went straight in the 80s and ended up doing well for himself in the car business.