How the prohibition lead to an automotive revolution in the united states

As the prohibition dragged on, people became more and more bold in their pursuit of bootleg alcohol. After settling for various homebrews for several months, many people were desperate for imported or professionally made alcohol. This huge demand for bootleg alcohol led to criminal syndicates (like the ones run by Al Capone and James Cannon) to enter the market. These organizations began to find their niches in this market. Some focused on the manufacture of alcohol, others on transport, distribution, sale, ect.. I chose to focus on the transportation piece. Essentially, for the organization responsible for getting bootleg liquor from the producer to the distributor, their sole job was to transport their cargo as quickly and as safely as possible. After experimenting with railroads, aircraft and even riverboats, many settled on cars as the best way to transport their liquor. Originally the crime organizations tried to blend in with other cars on the road. To do this, many bootleggers or "moonrunners" as they were then known, began to use their personal vehicles. This worked out well for a while until anonymous tips and internal betrayals left many of the personal vehicles being tailed by police at all hours of the day or impounded by police. The next question that the bootleggers faced was where to go from there. Some tried to build armored variants of their cars (most of the vehicles didn't leave the drawing board and those that did proved unsuitable due to their significantly lower top speed.) Others began heavily modifying their cars. These heavily modified cars were designed to look like regular production cars (Ford Model A's became very popular due to their low cost and abundance) however many had upwards of double the horsepower of the factory vehicles, upgraded suspension and drivetrain (for dirt/unmaintained roads) and other modifications (tanks for alcohol storage, roll bars, handrails for people to hold on from the outside, ect.) that made these vehicles the fastest and most capable cars on the street. These vehicles were commonly known as stock cars, sleepers, or hot rods. These cars made outrunning police cars (unheard of at the time; police cars were normally outfitted with high output engines and sturdy drivetrain from the factory) a possibility. However this did not end with the prohibition. In the early 1930s when the prohibition ended, criminal syndicates continued to use these cars for gambling purposes. The stock cars would be placed head to head on dirt tracks and bet on by the public (the different organizations would take a cut). This blossomed into a full on racing circuit. Teams from around the country were building stock cars to race. This was later incorporated as the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR).While many of the original sleepers were destroyed, they inspired a whole new style of cars in the post WWII years, hot rods. This held the same ideals as the prohibition era sleepers except these were show cars. While they were still light, high powered, extremely fast machines, the necessity for a factory look had gone. This led to a the first artistic movement in automotive history. People began to paint their cars crazy colors, use unique graphics (Flames became the symbol of a hotrod), and chrome out many of their parts to make their cars stand out from the rest. This whole car modifying culture (or counter culture) traced its roots back to the engineering genius that was seen in the Sleepers of the Prohibition.