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Very first race, Zephyrhills, vintage pics of very early rail job dragsters
and they are not all his.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu6dA2s-jyQ


Meguairs Car Crazy interview
Don Garlits - "Big Daddy" Don Garlits has been named the "King of the Dragsters." He has won the NHRA U.S. Nationals 8 times, has 17 World Champion titles and a total of 144 National Event wins.Episode 7010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46qKZ3Vbe6U

Most recent interview
ESPN featured Don Garlits during the 2014 Gatornationals elimination show. Don gave a powerful heartfelt interview about his career and the loss of his beloved wife Pat. A must watch if you're a fan of one of the greatest drag racers of all time, Don Garlits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhv410kC2ZY

 

[h=3]Mike Flynn[/h]Myself and I`m sure their`s a few of you too, wish we could have a wife so special, but not just a wife a woman that would stand behind you threw the thick and not so thin life of a drag racer, sitting next to him for months at a time waiting for him to heal, and when it was sadly his turn to sit next to her he did, with no thought of a finish line in mind , I think she probably died peacefully knowing he was by her side , This is truly a love story that should be told. May she rest in peace,,, 

 

Inside the Don Garlit's Racing Museum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVvZmbr5Nrg

 

Don Garlits Electric Dragster setting record at Bradenton Florida Almost 200 MPH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywQveJgjclM

 

Billetproof is put on at the Garlits Museum every year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_j_gGTKVQ8

feel free to look at previous video pages for other legendary Drag Racing
legends videos. As of today SEP 2015 they are about 4 to 5 pages down
in the video post.-Bob

 

[h=1]Racing legend Garlits has no plans for slowing down[/h]
Drag racing legend "Big Daddy" Don Garlits looks over his 2009 Dodge Challenger race car in his shop in Ocala on Friday.
Bruce ACKERMAN

By Joe VanHoose
Don Garlits' garage next to his two racing museums doesn't collect much dust these days. That's because the famed drag racer, who looks about 60 but says he's well on his way to 78, can't stop turning wrenches.

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He's been doing so for more than 50 years, after the then-young Tampa accountant walked away from a white-collar career to work at an auto body shop. He lost his girlfriend at the time, he said, but has since gained everything he ever wanted.
Judging from the new Dodge Challenger race car Garlits spends his days tweaking, all that the man voted the greatest drag racer of all time by the National Hot Rod Association wants to do now is keep racing.
"I ran [the prototype] last summer," said Garlits, known to fans as "Big Daddy." "I liked it so much, I wanted to get the first production model and go race with it."
So Dodge and Mopar gave Garlits the first of 13 2009 Dodge Challengers with a drag race package. The car Garlits received was pretty bare and open to interpretation, just like he wanted.
"We were left with a rolling chassis and our imagination," Garlits said, staring at the all-white car that sat on jack stands on a recent day. "There's a lot of work to be done with it."
Garlits said most of the parts for the car will be built in-house, much of it on the same equipment that engineered some of the most iconic dragsters - Garlits named most of them Swamp Rats - of all time.
He plans to rework the suspension, make custom exhaust and headers and move the engine. As for the engine, it's a 6.1-liter V-8 that pumps out around 600 horsepower.
"I may have a better engine than the one those boys put in it," Garlits said.

 

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Finding extra speed has never been a problem for Garlits. His Swamp Rats were the first in the NHRA to go over 170, 180, 200, 240, 250, 260 and 270 mph. His 30th Swamp Rat dragster resides in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C.
Big Daddy retired from the sport in 1992, but returned to run a quarter-mile at 319 mph when he was 71.
"That's why I am who I am," he said. "You could never have done any of this as an accountant."
Garlits hopes he will make new memories when he takes his new car to the race track. Dodge officials say the Challenger could be fit to run in a few different stock-level divisions.
In the meantime, Garlits goes to several races and drag strips throughout the year as a Dodge spokesman, occasionally creating a cloud of smoke by doing a burnout with the rear tires on his 1968 Swamp Rat. It's all part of his quarter-mile commute, which he has no plans on quitting any time soon.
"If anything, racing has kept me young," he said. "I've loved every minute of it."

 

Great Garlits interview Early 60's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J65FxT8q_W4

 

part 7 starts with Don Garlits interview 1966-1968
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwEIrmqdRWE

Good stuff here from a different era

 

Don Garlits new old dragster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krQRJkXeU6g