Don Garlits' 1St Swamp Rat... In Addition To Thence Sketchy Too Every Mo Ugly, That Hot Rod Wouldn't Slice Of Labor A Photograph Of It. Possibly The Rootage Of The Term Rat Rod
“I learned after that the guys inwards the California element of HOT ROD…took i expect at my heap equally good equally laughed out loud,” Don Garlits asserted inwards his 1967 autobiography, “King Of The Dragsters” (coauthored by times Brock Yates). “They decided it was only likewise ugly to deserve a picture.” Then again, maybe that improvised rollbar scared potent a staff led by times Wally Parks, the safety-obsessed HRM editor equally good equally NHRA president who’d renamed 1954’s initial Drag Safari every 2nd the Safety Safari this year. http://www.hotrod.com/articles/unpublished-photos-capture-don-garlits-first-nhra-win-1955/ Hot Rod March 2018 issue Sumber https://newaudisportscar.blogspot.com/