DON "BIG DADDY" GARLITS - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 272651
Price: $160.00
DON GARLITS
Color publicity photograph of Don Garlits behind his drag racing car signed
in silver ink.
Photograph signed: "Don Garlits". Color, 8½x11. Printed biography and
color photograph (unsigned) on verso. Drag racing legend Don Garlits, who won
over 144 national events, was a ten-time AHRA World Champion and
five-time IHRA Champion. Over his career, he broke a number of speed
records, including the first over 170 m.p.h. (1957) and first over 250
m.p.h. (1975), and he was the first to break 270 m.p.h. with his IHRA
record-setting 271.08. Garlits, who had revolutionized the sport by
designing and building the first successful rear-end dragster (1971), was
also a pioneer in a number of other innovations, including the first use
of bike wheels on the front of a dragster, the first use of a hypoid rear end,
the first use of air spoilers and the first use of frontal ground effects.
His drag racer was the first such vehicle to be enshrined in the Smithsonian
Institution, and Garlits himself was later enshrined in the International
Motorsports Hall of Fame (1997). Fine condition.
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