They’re All Spies
The story goes that Joe Woods of Street Outlaws was super skeptical when he was approached by producers about a show about illegal street racing. First of all, it sounded too good to be true, and then there’s the legal status of the sport. He concluded that the network was a secret spy operation.
When they first started filming, Woods, was still completely mistrustful of their intentions and even thought the whole set-up was an underground sting operation. Who can blame him?
Virginia State Lets the Cat out of the Bag
Producers were not upfront about the nature of Moonshiners with Virginia Alcohol authorities. As viewers kept asking why they were being allowed to brew illegal moonshine, Virginia let everyone know that they were not showing illegal alcohol on the show.
The cast, however, maintains that the State of Virginia is just bitter because they have just not been able to catch them making the moonshine.