Don was telling T.C. and the world about the front-cockpit car’s watchtower visibility. With the Jupiter-sized Dodge Hemi now out back, Don enjoys crystal-clear vision down the track; and more ...

The sport of drag racing saw its first 200-mph pass in the quarter-mile on August 1, 1964, at Island Dragway (Great Meadows, New Jersey) when Don "Big Daddy'' Garlits drove his Swamp Rat VI dragster ...

Regardless of being admired or mocked, rat rods are a work of personalization. They harbor innovation instead of conformity, functionality instead of precision, and enthusiasm instead of refinement.

Las Vegas | Who dares cut up a classic 1955 Chevy 210 hood, rudely exposing giant dual carburetors atop a 498 cubic inch blown big block engine? Rat rod master fabricator Steve Darnell of WelderUp, ...