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FE Power Forums => Non-FE Discussion Forum => Topic started by: machoneman on October 17, 2014, 12:00:13 PM
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http://www.sbnation.com/longform/2014/9/24/6833139/don-garlits-big-daddy-drag-racing-profile
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Enjoyed that story about Big Daddy Don! Have to put his museum on my bucket list...
Bruce
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The Ocala museum is well worth a visit...I certainly hope to go back again. And it has a lot more than just Garlits' cars.
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I was visiting the museum the day Andy Grannatelli's 62 Twin Paxton Dodge rolled out of the transported , Don drove up in (I believe) his parents 30(?) Ford, the next 30 mins cemented Don Garlits as OUR leader. He is a Hot Rodder ,he is one of us, as his finger traced the bezles of the curved glass SW gauges he talked TO me like we had been friends for years. I could feel that he remembered the day those gauges came out, or when he got his first set. We talked about the curved steel plate bolted to the floor , how rule books are writen in blood....just amazing.
My friend is a bike guy , knew the name but nothing else , he was floored how Don Galits and I just talked , liked old friends. Another Galits Fan.
Oh and it's all on Video Tape , someday Scott will find it, and it will go on You Tube.