Ocala, Florida - Big Daddy Don Garlits Museum Of Drag Racing

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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 Racing. Ocala, Florida - Big Daddy Don Garlits Museum Of Drag Racing
A car museum for people who usually don't like car museums, because, well, dragsters aren't really cars. Roadsideamerica.com Report...

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Burned rubber in the parking lot. Ocala, Florida - 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]

Memorial Ocala, Florida - 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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