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 ...

NHRA Top Fuel champion was the first driver to score victories in two pro classes at the same race, in 1971 and 1972.

The Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing is open Monday to Sunday from 9 am to 5 pm. Closed Thanksgiving and Christmas days, they hold the annual “Mopars with Big Daddy,” which will be held this ...

Don "Big Daddy" Garlits is the most innovative man in drag racing history. For him, wrangling the 840-horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is a piece of cake.

250 mph and 5.63 seconds: Author Dave Wallace takes us back in time to 1979, when Don Garlits still on top of the drag-racing record books.

At age 90, “Big Daddy” Don Garlits has thrown down the gauntlet. Maybe that should read: Seattle innovator Steve Huff has thrown down the gauntlet. Garlits, for decades a trailblazer in drag ...

Ocala.com exclusive story - Most race fans probably think Don Garlits' interest in cars started the first time he slipped into the seat of a hot rod. Not so. For Garlits, the fascination goes b… ...

These days Don Garlits, “Big Daddy” himself, is running a different kind of race – for the U.S. Congress. Garlits wants to straighten out Washington, once and for all, ...

Don Garlits sets New Electric Dragster Record in Florida; Still Chasing 200mph. Luke Nieuwhof Writer Jul 22, 2019. 0:00 / 0:00. South Florida in July is not an area of the world associated with ...

“Big Daddy” Don Garlits: It was a two-speed transmission then. We had been using it for about a year, and it had been running really good. But that day there was a mechanical failure inside of ...

Drag-racing legend "Big Daddy" Don Garlits didn't quite reach his goal of getting his electric dragster to break the 200-mile-per-hour mark. But he did come close enough to get his team to keep ...

Don Garlits, the 87-year-old drag racing legend, hoped to be the first racer to reach 200 mph in a battery-powered dragster. But after several attempts over a span of more than five hours, Garlits ...