Surviving more than 40 years of nitro-methane fires, engine explosions and living life driving a race car at breath-taking speeds few can comprehend, reaching your 80th birthday is a milestone worth celebrating. For Donald Glenn Garlits, better known the world over as “Big Daddy,†a simple cake just would not suffice. On the eve of the NHRA’s season-opening Winternationals this weekend, more than 300 people packed a hotel ballroom in Pomona, Calif, to roast drag racing’s top driver.
Billed as “Don Garlits’ Rat Roast†in honor of the 34 race cars he built that were known as “Swamp Rat  … More
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