"Big Daddy" Don Garlits's Tales from the Drag Strip

by Garlits, Don

• ISBN13: 9781582617749
• ISBN10: 1582617740
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-01
• Publisher: Sports Pub

Summary

The drag racing icon gives a humorous and insightful first-person account of the many memorable experiences he has lived through in his half-century of nitromethane-fueled exploits.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Introduction	xiii
In the Beginning	3	(2)
Bubba's Girl	5	(3)
Flatheads Forever?	8	(1)
Beat the Clock	9	(1)
Coupe de Gras	10	(2)
A Chevy from the Levy	12	(1)
Eastern Upstart	13	(2)
And If They Didn't	15	(1)
The First "Big" Win	16	(2)
The Challenges of Travel	18	(2)
Long Pulls	20	(1)
Ju$tice for All	21	(2)
But Was It Worth It?	23	(1)
In the End, It Was	23	(4)
Cook-ed His Own Goose	27	(1)
166.97	28	(1)
Hero Worship	28	(1)
Another Cook & Garlits Adventure	29	(3)
Shades of Chester, South Carolina	32	(4)
Art Malone's Timely Visit	36	(2)
December 1959	38	(1)
A Little Help from His Friends	39	(2)
Christmas Bonus	41	(1)
Bad Run of Luck?	42	(1)
Big Daddy Burns Again	43	(2)
Swingle Pinch Hits	45	(1)
Racing as a Business?	46	(3)
Super Stock Dodge	49	(3)
"Collecting" the Cash	52	(1)
Pass the Nitro	53	(3)
Chrysler Comes A-Callin'	56	(3)
Hemi Style	59	(1)
A Legend Helps a Legend-to-Be	60	(2)
Two "Kings" Are Bunkmates in Vietnam	62	(1)
Tricks of the Trade	63	(4)
The Wheels of Progress	67	(2)
Fire Burnouts	69	(2)
The Best at the Burn	71	(1)
The Fire's Out	72	(2)
Garlits vs. Carbone ... In Every Round!	74	(1)
"The Great Burndown" Revisited	75	(2)
Deadly Competition	77	(2)
"Impressing" King Hogan	79	(1)
"Love at First Sight"	80	(1)
Return to the Strip	81	(1)
Beating the King	82	(3)
Big Daddy vs. the NHRA	85	(2)
Snapshot	87	(1)
Clubbed	87	(1)
Big Daddy vs. the NHRA II	88	(8)
A Short Truce	96	(2)
The Wing Is the Thing	98	(1)
Pit Politics	98	(2)
Not My Line	100	(1)
Across the Pond	101	(2)
Lights Out	103	(1)
Bad Timing	104	(1)
PRA	105	(5)
Mending the Fences	110	(1)
Rubber War	110	(2)
Publicity Stunt	112	(5)
Shirley	117	(1)
Then There Was the Time at Martin, Michigan	118	(3)
More Fun with Muldowney	121	(2)
Garlits and Gwynn	123	(2)
The Computer	125	(2)
When Ingenuity and Luck Shake Hands	127	(1)
Lions, 1970	128	(4)
More from the Hospital	132	(1)
Indy, 1984	133	(3)
Not the End of the Road	136	(1)
Turned on Its Head	137	(2)
Home Away from Home	139	(1)
Pomona, Here We Come	140	(1)
Lost Treasure	141	(1)
The Race to End All Races	142	(3)
Fun and Games with the Snake I	145	(1)
Fun and Games with the Snake II	146	(3)
The Blowover	149	(3)
Indy, 1967	152	(5)
Four Seconds at Over 300	157	(3)
Swamp Rat XXXIV	160	(1)
Don Cook: Ironman	161	(1)
You Want to See Tough?	162	(1)
Big Daddy Was Tough, Too	163	(2)
Autofest 2000	165