The name Garlits has always been synonymous with Top Fuel. The guy they were calling Old Man by 1970 didn't just rewrite the record book, he wrote history. Over the course of a career that has spanned ...

The two men sit, one hand on the butterfly steering wheel, the other on the brake handle. To their left are tens of thousands of fans. Immediately in front of them, a nitro-burning, snarling Chrysler ...

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 an ...

Randy Henning was a kid living on the northwest side of Milwaukee when he met Don Garlits. Garlits was still relatively young too but on his way to becoming the godfather of drag racing. “He blew a ...