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, and his ...
The following story originally appeared with the title of “Garlits Up Front” in the May 1971 issue of HOT ROD and marked the introduction of drag racing’s first successful rear-engine Top Fuel ...