Drag racing—like hot rodding—is generally focused on moving forward as quickly as possible. Whether you're a shade tree mechanic who loves to tinker or a world-renowned champion competing for a ...

Tucked away near the sleepy town of Belleview just south of Ocala, the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing features the King of the Dragsters’ prized racing machines, including the Swamp Rat XIV ...

How do you introduce a garage like this? Everyone knows who "Big Daddy" Don Garlits is, and, as you may guess, he has a monster collection of vintage goodies to go with the 250 cars on display in the ...

A Thunderbolt recently struck the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing. A 1963 Ford Fairlane 500 replica of a championship-winning 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 quarter-mile drag car known as a Thunderbolt was ...

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In the first two parts of this interview series with drag-racing legend “Big Daddy” Don Garlits, now 91, we covered a lot of ground, including his racing in the colorful sixties and seventies, ...

At 86 years old, legendary drag racer “Big Daddy” Don Garlits has found the fountain of youth: Batteries. No, we’re not talking about batteries for a heart pacemaker or the kind you put in your TV ...

Even though he’s now 87 years old, the lure of strapping himself into an 11,000 horsepower Top Fuel dragster still courses through the veins of legendary “Big Daddy” Don Garlits. One of the greatest ...

At 86, the King of the Dragsters is still going full throttle. "Big Daddy" Don Garlits may no longer strap himself into a nitro fueled drag car and rocket down the quarter mile in three-plus seconds ...