Big daddy, real name Don Garlits as born on the 14th of January in 1932. Don Garlits is 89 years old car racer; all the more, he is the utmost renowned personality in the scenario of drag car racing. Big daddy had a commendable career in drag car racing as he set up tons of records in explicit sports. Big daddy was the foremost car racer subjected with drag racing organizations to unconfined the milestone of 270 miles per hour. 

Big daddy had an interesting career till now; the prominent reason he is known as big daddy is the number of records set up the explicit participant in the sport. However, still, there are ample facts about Don Garlits that even his followers are not acknowledged; here is an utter biography of Garlits; let’s have a glance in detail. 

Early life

Don Garlits, the full name Donald Glenn Garlits was born on the 14th of January in 1932 in Florida, United States. Don Garlits was born and brought up in a city named Tampa, nearby Florida. Garlits completed his primary education at the school of Hillsborough high school. He was passionate about drag racer at an exceedingly young age and decided to pursue his career as a full-time drag racer subsequent to World War 2. The fact might amaze you that big daddy was not just a drag racer but was an automatic car engineer at the very same time. 

The foremost car acquired and modified by Don Garlits at the very first instances of his professional career was the Ford Model T Roadster; devoid of proper equipment; don Garlits carried out the modification progression by merely a welder and a metal cutting torch. Big daddy processed the modification at his own house in Tampa. Garlits performed commendably well in the foremost race of NHRA. He participated and grabbed the title of champion. 

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Career

Subsequent to few years of the local and domestic championship, big daddy participated in a renowned United States drag race championship named as US fuel gas championship. However, the title of the championship was later replaced by the March meeting. US fuel gas championship was equipped with an exceeding extent of the realistic audience at the instance, to be utterly précised 29,000 attendants were present to witness the drag race. 

Car accidents in the drag race in the 1970s were exceedingly frequent, and big daddy correspondingly confronted a deadly accident. The gear emission of swamp rat 13th was exploded and which injured the foot of big daddy adversely. However, after the accident, big daddy innovated swamp rate 14th, all the more he stated in an interview that he visited the car part shop on a wheelchair for the invention of swamp rat 14th. 

The model was an ultimate success as don won 3 sequential races with the assistance of the explicit model and his skillset. The awards won by big daddy are as follows, automatic hall of fame, motorsport hall of fame, etc. 

Net worth

The net worth of big daddy don Garlits is $15 million.