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In Their Own Words.(Competition)
"Big Daddy'' Don Garlits is to drag racing what Richard Petty is to stock cars and Mario Andretti is to open-wheel racing. Except that Garlits won a lot more races.
AUTOWEEK: What is it about these reunions that keeps you coming back?
DON GARLITS: I get to come back here and see a lot of my old friends. And I really like these old cars. This was a very colorful era of drag racing. And I love the swap meet. . . . I go down there and find parts for my restoration projects back at my museum in Ocala, Florida.
AW: What's the difference between drag racing then and drag racing now?
DG: Modern drag racing has gotten so, I don't know, far-out. That's the word. I mean, $10,000 a run, 335 miles an hour-you can't even see 'em, they go by so fast. It's just not the same. It's so very corporate. Everybody has to be so careful about what they say-be sure to get the sponsor's name in there just perfect, you know. It's all bulls***, if you'll pardon my French. We didn't do it that way. Like yesterday, when Tommy Ivo ran into the back of me out there, I wanted to go over and choke him. They were having a hard time controlling me. Today they'd say, "I'm so happy it came out all right, and nobody got hurt, and my ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, In Their Own Words.(Competition)