Ocala, Florida -
Big Daddy Don Garlits Museum Of Drag Racing
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A car museum for people who usually don't like car museums, because dragsters aren't really cars -- they're horizontal missiles with wheels.
- Address:
- 13700 SW 16th Ave., Ocala, FL
- Directions:
- I-75 exit 341. East on Hwy 484, then a quick right onto SW 16th Ave. The museum will be on the right.
- Phone:
- 352-245-8661
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Big Daddy Don Garlits Museum Of Drag RacingA car museum for people who usually don't like car museums, because dragsters aren't really cars -- they're horizontal missiles with wheels. Roadsideamerica.com Report...
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Big Daddy Don Garlits Museum Of Drag Racing Evidence of inspired visitors leaving the Garlits Museum of Drag Racing: massive peel-outs and burnt rubber trails in the parking lot. [Scott Archibald, 04/29/2009]
Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing Now for sale in the gift shop: spark plugs, motor castings, and racing slicks
signed by Don. The tires go for over $200, so the spark plugs at $5 apiece
-- each in a baggy -- are a relative bargain. Also for $5 are signed "Don
Garlits for Congress" brochures (He lost.) Museum of Drag Racing stock
certificates sell for $50 apiece. A new Drag Racing Hall Of Fame Memorial
stands out by the road. Atop the concrete base is a live-size bronze
replica of the dragster Big Daddy flipped over and crashed in the early
1980s. Don Garlits emerged unscathed. The dragster is frozen nose up, in
mid-flip. [Roadsideamerica.com Team, 05/04/2003][RA: April 2009: Photo added.]
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