Super-laudable feats of Stars and Bars-garbed Don Garlits ... Sighting colorful "tie-dye" chute in rear view mirrors for first time, Garlits was so entranced he forgot to go for the brakes!

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 ...

So did HOT ROD Magazine, at the time edited by NHRA founder Wally Parks, and Garlits came to view the scene as ... everybody in the joint on his side. These days Don Garlits is the crowd favorite ...

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 ...

Don Garlits, now 91, has earned lofty place among legends after contentious start decades ago. NHRA founder Wally Parks ultimately conceded that Garlits was “bait” and improved the sport’s ...

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 ...

These hobbies have nothing to do with drag racing, and they’re an unusual side of me that most people don’t know about. Forbes'Big Daddy' Don Garlits Reflects On Drag-Racing Career ...

Ocala.com exclusive story - Most race fans probably think Don Garlits ... of my buddies," Garlits said. "They can put up $500 for a car, and there's a big spot on the side for their name." ...

In the first part of this interview series with drag-racing legend “Big Daddy” Don Garlits, we discussed his colorful competition in the sixties/seventies against the likes of Don “The Snake ...

Don Garlits is a legend and a pioneer in the world of drag racing. Through the course of his long career, “Big Daddy” has produced a number of innovations that have since become staples of the ...

"Big Daddy" Don Garlits was the first man to break 200 mph ... It features a lithium-polymer battery made of four packs, two on each side of the car. Each pack holds 300 lithium polymer cells ...