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 ...

OCALA, Fla. – Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing, located in Ocala, is a place rich in history, with thousands of artifacts, memorabilia, trophies and many drag racing cars. “Swamp Rat 1. It went 176 ...

BRISTOL, Tenn. – Don Garlits was as spellbound as anyone watching the motorcade crawl through Bristol Dragway on Friday night. A 1932 burnt orange Ford Hiboy, its round front fenders chopped off; a ...

What would a book on the history of major league baseball be without a mention of Babe Ruth? Or the NBA without Wilt Chamberlain? Or soccer without Pele in its pages? Impossible, you say. Not if ...

The name Garlits has always been synonymous with Top Fuel. The guy they were calling Old Man by 1970 didn't just rewrite the record book, he wrote history. Over the course of a career that has spanned ...

Speed and elapsed-time milestones in drag racing were being smashed at a steady pace in the '60s, but one of the biggest—if not the biggest—barrier to be broken was the 200-mph mark for the quarter.

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 looking to ...

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 ...

On the 50th anniversary of mankind's first moon landing, last Saturday, another kind of new record hit the electric car community. Legendary drag-racer Don Garlits, who was setting racing records ...

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 ...