Here are some photos of garlits museum. Great place if your in Florida dont miss it...........Link to photos www.vonwrench.com
WOW! Those pics made me all nostalgic and***** for my youth and the enthusiasm for cars and the smell of rubber those cars burned into me. I grew up with those cars in my head and they still make me excited. That Tommy Ivo dual engine dragster has got to be the coolest thing ever. I'm happy those cars still exist. I never realized some survived the sixties. Didn't Tommy Ivo also have a four engine dragster ?
I've rode by a million times...always mean to stop...always pressed for time...I gotta get out there! P.S. Think they coulda squeezed out a few more inches on this chop??
P.S. Think they coulda squeezed out a few more inches on this chop?? big al........supposed to be the first glass hot rod body .....jim lytles car......brandon oh yeah ....its a******in place too......
A bunch of us came down for Daytona Spring Meet and the Gator Nationals this year. We stopped at Garlits Museum on the way into town and stopped back for another half day on the way out of town. When some of us were inside, a couple of my friends were outside for a smoke. Don happened by and asked my friends to help him push the coupe he at at Gainesville into one of the garages. You want to talk about a couple of guys in melt down when we came out!! I agree with Nads, I need another 4 or 5 days to take it all in just for this year. I can't believe all the history in one place.
my buddy and a member of hamb does all the sign painting and striping for don,he also sets up all the displays for him..hes over there everyday almost! scanlan signs..........randy
I don't think Garlits ever threw a thing away in his life, or ever forgot anything either. I love the display cabinets full of crumbs of engines, all melted together, with discriptions of who and where he was racing when they blew. In his articles in Drag Racer mag he tells the stories like they just happened yesterday.
I was flippin through the channels the other day and home improvement was on. I stopped for a second and they were in D.C. Somehting came up and tim allen said something abuot they were just going to the smithsonian to see don garlits swamp rat. I just thought that was bad****. I mean it was the mid 90's and don garlits got props on ABC. Garlits rocks. -b
Nice pics -- but either the rumours about Big Daddy's cheapness are true and he's running 40 watt bulbs, or your flash wasn't turned on.
Here's some more pictures from when I was there a year ago. http://photobucket.com/albums/v237/Flexicoker/Garlits Museum/
Hey, thanks for posting the pics.........that is really a neat place. It's been a few years since I've been there, now got the urge to head south for a couple days! He also has a collection of Fords that Henry would be proud of!
I was there several years ago, after looking at these pics I need to get back soon, Thanks for posting.
we go every year we go to disney. awesome place.. On a side note,There is a museum out around the luling, lockhart TX area that has an awesome collection of original cars from all era's. evening very obscure examles of small company attempts and auto manufacturing. the owner is a muliple "great race" winner....
Me and my pop stopped there when I was like 12 - We could see Mr. Garlits working on the swamp rat with the small front wheels in the distance from the museum. I got a blown up piston and a model of one of the old swamp rats. Awesome place. I still have the engine from that model. On a side note - it is the super chevy show in commerce this weekend. Last year Don Garlits was there with a small trailer that contained one of his front engined old swamp rats. I got to say hello to him. He is really approachable. He is just sitting there hanging out. It was just him and his wife and the little dog. I was in awe. That guy is too damn cool. I was really scared to even talk to him.
I was at Daytona Turkey rod run with the Roadster and he shot some film footage of it for his TV show. Kinda cool.........I have a tape of it on TV. A few years ago I went to Tampa Florida and drove a 32 3W highboy back to SC for a friend. I stopped at the museum and paid to go inside. Super cool place. It was in the middle of the week and I was there all by myself.......no other visitors. About half way thru the building, Garlits walks up and asks "are you driving the 3W? " We talked for about 10 to 15 minutes and he gave a little tour..... Priceless........ .
Dammmitt Boy,I actually got to see this thig make a pass in KC/MO in the early 90's a genuine Kamikazi ride! T.OUT
This is a cool place I havent been there in a long time I had to go to Daytona last wekend and thought of going by. I wish I would have I have family in Daytona so I probly will be back that way soon! What does it cost to get in over there? Great place though! Josh
Isn't that one of E.J.Potter's, the Michigan Madman's bikes? If you ever get to talk to him, he's cool, real wackjob.
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