“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-racing ...

In moving the engine to the rear, Garlits learned three lessons: slow the steering down, use an open rearend, and put an airfoil on the front! The following story originally appeared with the ...

The most recent addition, Don's Garage, contains many of his famous Chrysler Hemi engines used during his drag racing career. A biography of Garlits on www. garlits.com states his drag racing ...

A drag racing legends is hoping a rechargeable dragster will bring him a little fountain of youth. “Big Daddy” Don Garlits will race his “Swamp Rat” SR-37 at Florida’s Brandenton ...

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. To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, we teamed up ...

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 ...

Drag racing champion "Big Daddy" Don Garlits set a new record for an all-electric dragster, finishing a run in 7.258 seconds at 184.01 mph. The Swamp Rat 37 dragster uses GE electric motors ...

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 ...

Like Babe Ruth and his 1932 "called shot" home run against the Chicago Cubs, racing legend "Big Daddy" Don Garlits is calling one of his own. He's taking his battery-powered "Swamp Rat 37" back to ...

Don "Big Daddy" Garlits crawls under the dash of his 1966 Chrysler speedboat and prods for the problem. Big Daddy spent the next 50 years smashing record after record and becoming drag racing's ...

"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 ...

In 1963, Don Garlits won the top-fuel final of the third NHRA Winternationals at Pomona Raceway. Driving a Dodge dragster, he reached 186.32 mph in 8.26 seconds. The last time he raced at Pomona ...