We went to the Don ‘Big Daddy’ Garlits Drag Racing Museum.
It‘s a pretty cool place. He has every dragster and every car he has ever owned in there. Some of the dragsters had to be rebuilt, but he kept them all. Every dragster was named The Swamp Rat and numbered 1 to 31. All of them are here. One of them was left as it was after a crash.
Once he started up the museum, all of his racing friends donated or loaned race cars so there are more dragsters and funny cars from other drivers in there.
Finally, in another building is every car he has ever owned, plus a few dozen more that he and his friends have restored. His cars all have little plaques about them. Like the truck that he learned to drive in or the car his wife drove until he started restoring it, the she didn’t want to drive it anymore.
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