Drag racing—like hot rodding—is generally focused on moving forward as quickly as possible. Whether you're a shade tree mechanic who loves to tinker or a world-renowned champion competing for a ...

Tucked away near the sleepy town of Belleview just south of Ocala, the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing features the King of the Dragsters’ prized racing machines, including the Swamp Rat XIV ...

Read full article: Professional golfer casually shoos away gator at Bay Hill OCALA, Fla. – Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing, located in Ocala, is a place rich in history, with thousands of artifacts, ...

How do you introduce a garage like this? Everyone knows who "Big Daddy" Don Garlits is, and, as you may guess, he has a monster collection of vintage goodies to go with the 250 cars on display in the ...

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 ...

In the first two parts of this interview series with drag-racing legend “Big Daddy” Don Garlits, now 91, we covered a lot of ground, including his racing in the colorful sixties and seventies, ...

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 ...