Don garlits rearranged the digger and his success has been phenome now, "big daddy don" tells why his car works when others. haven't by Ralph Guldahl, Jr. Super.

It was March 8, 1970, 5:30 p.m. PST, a championship drag race at Long Beach, Calif. Big Daddy Don Garlits -- his nickname spread his fame more than any record he set -- was 38, racing against ...

“Big Daddy” Don Garlits: It was a two-speed transmission then. We had been using it for about a year, and it had been running really good. But that day there was a mechanical failure inside of ...

At age 10, Antron Brown was attracted to the high-powered Top Fuel dragsters and “Big Daddy” Don Garlits, who’s considered the father of drag racing, provided the New Jersey youngster with ...

ABINGDON, Va. – An otherwise normal Tuesday afternoon at the William N. Neff Center for Science and Technology quickly turned into a day of lasting memories when National Hot Rod ...