“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 ...

Drag racer “Big Daddy” Don Garlits has set more than a few records throughout his decades-long racing career. The 87-year-old hopes that he can capture one more next week. Garlits will be ...

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 ...