New Don Garlits' 1St Swamp Rat... Then Sketchy As Well As Ugly, That Hot Rod Wouldn't Piece Of Job A Photograph Of It. Maybe The Root Of The Term Rat Rod

“I learned afterward that the guys inwards the California component of HOT ROD…took i await at my heap as well as laughed out loud,” Don Garlits asserted inwards his 1967 autobiography, “King Of The Dragsters” (coauthored past times Brock Yates).

“They decided it was simply likewise ugly to deserve a picture.”

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New Don Garlits' 1St Swamp Rat... Then Sketchy As Well As Ugly, That Hot Rod Wouldn't Piece Of Job A Photograph Of It. Maybe The Root Of The Term Rat Rod

Then again, mayhap that improvised rollbar scared strong a staff led past times Wally Parks, the safety-obsessed HRM editor as well as NHRA president who’d renamed 1954’s initial Drag Safari every 2d the Safety Safari this year.

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Hot Rod March 2018 issue