"Big Daddy" Don Garlits is a legend in drag racing. Over the decades he's set a lot of records, and was the first to break hit 200 miles per hour in the quarter-mile (and the eighth-mile ...

Case in point: the very speedy maiden voyages of Don Garlits' Swamp Rat 37. Though his tarmac-tearing time of 7.26 seconds at 184.01 miles per hour didn't qualify as a record – his next-fastest ...

The Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing in Ocala was the only other Florida museum to make the top 20 worldwide list. "For ...