Big Daddy’s Don Garlits Dragster Swamp Rat 12-A Start Up

[@kevinbarber44]

Mr Garlits I grew up watching everything you did , you will always be my hero!

[@idontcare3013]

Boy, oh boy. When he switched her over to nitro...DAMN

[@williammeszaros3382]

That is so cool...it's amazing that he didn't jump in the car and do a burn-out... Way to go, Don !

[@zangzang1268]

"The music of my people"...

[@wmwardwell]

Nice CACKLE BIG !!

[@user-mm1se7gy7e]

That was just plain Badass !

[@kendavid4386]

BIG DADDY dill aldays be the man.

[@mikeperry1620]

That is one bad machine!

[@brownwrench]

I'd love to see it run on some current slicks

[@threadtapwhisperer5136]

Dude, the 2023 modern stuff might be the hottest bad fast nitro has ever been, but this baby must have just stunned spectators back in the day. Thay changeover instantly got her just "BWAAAP-BWAAP bwaa cackle cackle" Y'know, theres a dude has a channel called 2 stroke stuffing He building the first nitromethanol, supercharged 2 stroke 50cc engine. Hes gotten it to make at least 38hp a few times, with many prototype engine issues and revisions required But uh, go check it out. It consumes nitro at the same sort of per displacement rate the big v8 dragsters do. Spinamathings to about 18-19k also. Ita rhe gnarliedt 50cc has ever sounded!

[@williammeszaros3382]

All of them did. There were more top fuelers and funny cars, and fuel alterds...literally hundreds.... Nowadays, you get 10-20.......sheesh...

[@TURKEYMAN60185]

What a legend

[@mikefry8152]

The guy talking had it wrong garlits went to the rear engine car in 74 I believe on the cover of hot rod magazine that year with it.

[@AmericanMuscleMetal]

71 i believe was when Garlits went to rear engine

[@TheInvisibleRedneck]

I have the same video from a different angle. Really cool show and story he told.

[@AmericanMuscleMetal]

Agreed