Don Garlits pictures from motor sports photos on webshots

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Date uploaded: Dec 14, 2006

Don Garlits is to drag racing what Babe Ruth was to baseball, Garlits could do it all, from building his own cars and engines to developing revolutionary concepts, such as drag racing�s first successful rear-engine Top Fuel dragster. Garlits won 35 NHRA national events and three NHRA Winston Top Fuel Championships and was the first driver to break the 170, 180, 200, 240, 250 and 270 barriers. He opened his Museum of Drag Racing, in Ocala, Florida, in 1984, and his Swamp Rat 30 dragster was inducted into the Smithsonian Institution in 1987. Garlits returned to active driving in 2000 by recording his first four-second and 300-mph runs at the Mac Tools U. S. Nationals. �Big Daddy� nickname given to him over the PA by Bernie Partridge, long time NHRA national event announcer at an early Indy event.

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