“That’s as quick as you can get after it,” Don Garlits says ... an impact wrench, an air filter, and assorted hand tools. Also a controller that allows you to unlock special high-octane ...

Drag Racing ace “Big Daddy” Don Garlits, who topped the list of NHRA's Top 50 Racers in a 2000 poll of historians, media, officials, drivers and racing insiders, earned his respect grudgingly ...

Don Garlits ... the blower gulping air, but I can guess the engine rpm by the tone.” Armed with small tires, 3.42 or 3.56 rear end, high gear only and lotsa power, Garlits wants to make ...

They are everywhere, and "Big Daddy" Don Garlits sees them clearly. Not dragsters, although there are plenty at his drag racing museum _ make that shrine _ here in south Marion County. Not ...

Just before 5:30 p.m. on March 8, 1970, Don Garlits edged his top-fuel dragster to the starting line at the old Lions Drag Strip in Wilmington, the car’s 2,000-horsepower engine belching ...

Drag racing legend “Big Daddy” Don Garlits says he occasionally grew woozy ... 10 – Test subjects in a U.S. Air Force centrifuge suffered chest pain, shortness of breath and occasional ...

In drag racing, there is "Big Daddy" Don Garlits and there is everyone else. Some won more races and championships, but Garlits will always loom largest among the straightliners. He was the ...

"Big Daddy" Don Garlits was the first man to break 200 mph in a dragster. Five decades later, he hopes to do it again--in an electric dragster. Garlits, often called the father of drag racing ...

StyleBody: Half-hard 0.050-inch aluminum by Don Garlits and Jim Hunnewell Paint: DuPont Imron Black sprayed by Al Parker; lettering by Luke Scanlan. Interior: 1944 Army Air Corps surplus seat and ...